Subject: The Cow Jumped Higher than the Moon
From: sammie@world.std.com (Samantha Wilkinson)
Date: 1997/08/08
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The Cow Jumped Higher than the Moon
copyright 1979
By Samantha Wilkinson, Age 5
Picture descriptions by Matt McIrvin, age 29

[Front cover: a bulging figure in black crayon, with horns and what seems to be a pig's nose.]

[Frontispiece: Legless, saucer-eyed figure with rectangular arms seemingly attached at the head.]

[Title page: A bodiless head with long rectangular arms attached and a Cyclopean eye, in red crayon; and a spotted, long-tailed cow in blue ink, with what look like pen-testing scribbles nearby.]

Once upon a time there was a cow named Hamburgers.

[Cow made of bubbles, with a smiling face and a complex arrangement of bubbles on top of its head.]

She had brown eyebrows and looked like a girl. Her body looked like a cow, but her face looked like a girl. She wore a blue and green ribbon on top of her head.

[The same, only now the head is much bigger, and the bubbles thereon are now recognizable as ears, in human position, and a ribbon on top.]

When she sneezed she said "Koo-koo heads!"

[Text in the author's own handwriting, reading "OK headKOOoo o s" in letters of vastly varying size.]

She lived happily with the bull. His name is Harry.

[Two bubble-figures. One seems to be a quadruped seen from the side, as above, and the other seems to have only arms. However, the colored-in ribbon indicates that the latter is probably Hamburgers.]

Harry and Hamburgers lived happily ever after with their calf named Sherry.

[Three happy bubble-figures arm in arm.]

[Author's handwriting: "the Enb"]

[Back cover: A figure reminiscent of Willem de Kooning's "Woman" series, in magenta and black crayon, heavily filled in. It has hair resembling a peaked roof, a depressed expression, and a massive, square body with a suggestion of breasts. We can only speculate who or what it may represent, but its fundmental angst is affecting.]