The Cow Book
Anyone who starts off her book with a chapter about headstrong cows who make a run for it in order to escape from the slaughterhouse, must really love her subject. Thanks to this genuine love, 'The Cow Book' is much more than just an informative book on the national symbol of the Netherlands.
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Bibi Dumon Tak
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'The Cow Book' contains just about everything the ordinary interested person would want to know about cows.
NRC
All those personal observations and conversations with people who have a lot to do with cows, make this a very lively book. Dumon Tak not only writes about how things ought to be, but she also describes how they are. She does not duck a single question and she is not sentimental. But she is obviously crazy about cows.
NRC
Every sentence tells the reader how much Bibi Dumon Tak loves cows. And because she writes in such an animated way about the life and times of the sisters of Annie 65, Berta 5 and Gree 21, you soon find yourself thinking: fascinating, just like people.
PZC
Bibi Dumon Tak
Bibi Dumon Tak (b. 1964) is the first non-fiction writer for children to have won the Theo Thijssen Prize for her oeuvre.