Therefore, he changes the story of the book a little to be more interesting for someone living in Ankh-Morpork.Ī spin-off from Thud!, this is a book ostensibly aimed at very young children. But one day Vimes decides that it makes no sense to read about animals which Young Sam will never see alive. But it all ends happily!Įvery day at 6:00pm sharp Sam Vimes reads the book Where's My Cow? to Young Sam. ‘Mostly they call her Cow, because coppers aren’t particularly good when it comes to names, but Corporal Nobbs calls her Maisie, after his old mum.This is a book about reading a book, which turns into a different book. And if at all possible, what is the cow’s name? (for it looks pretty in the picture) She gets milked twice a day and the coppers hope no-one ever claims her because the milk is so nice.’ĥ.
‘In the Watch stables, where she is spoiled rotten by the coppers. They’ve clubbed together to buy her hay.’ ‘Corporal Nobbs is very attached to the cow, and so are the other watchmen. Is anyone looking after the cow if it is lost? (particularly worried about this one) Some watchmen have fed her chips from the canteen, but she seems fine.’ģ. She was found wandering and brought in to the Watch House by Corporal Nobbs.’ In answer to some questions from a child worried about the missing cow, Terry supplied the following information. A single copy in the Pratchett Archive and one in Talpress’s files are all that exist. Two different printers made faulty printings, and both printings were destroyed. UK hbk: Doubleday, published on 26 September 2005 (7-X) A book about the place where he’ll grow up. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city. It is the most loved and chewed book in the world.īut his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. A Discworld picture book for people of all sizesĪt six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where’s My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.
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