A venturesome cow sneaks off in her farmer's red car, with decidedly bumpy results. Said cow, brown and white and wearing a bell, notices that the farmer's put a "Car for Sale" sign on his vehicle. Leaping at the opportunity, she motors off on a joy ride, but the joy lasts a mere four pages. Out of control, car and cow careen off a cliff and crunch another car. A page turn reveals worse news: The crushed car is a police vehicle, and the perturbed cop's standing nearby. The titular word is extensively employed in the text; one extremely long "Mooooooo" undulates over the hills in the wake of the car as the cow sets out, and her excuse is delivered to the policeman in a string of 28 of 'em. Ordered back to her pasture, where she encounters the farmer, the cow fingers an innocent bystander with a one-word accusation: "Baaaaa!" Wohnoutka's cheery, cartoonish gouache pictures deliver the action accessibly enough for toddlers to enjoy, while new readers will ace the simple text and get the broad jokes. Good barnyard fun, with nods to Mo Willems' aspirational Pigeon and Doreen Cronin and Betsy Lewin's enterprising Duck. (Picture book. 2-6)]] Copyright Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

The story is simple: a cow takes the farmer's car for a joy ride with disastrous results. It's simply told with one word: moo. The active gouache illustrations depict most of the drama of the cow's wild ride, while the single-word text conveys meaning through different fonts, sizes, and graphics. Non-readers will delight in "reading" this on their own. (c) Copyright 2014. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

When her farmer puts a For Sale sign on his old red car, the cow takes it for a joy ride and lands in multiple bits of trouble. With the exception of a couple of landscape signs (such as the For Sale placard on the car), the entire text of this energetic and humorously anthropomorphic tale is composed of variations on the titular Moo. On some spreads, moo is rightfully drawn out to span the width of two pages after hitting a rock in the road, for example, cow and car become airborne while other moos are posited as questions or expressions of curiosity, glee, terror, and shame. Wohnoutka's brightly toned cartoon illustrations provide a huge variety of perspectives but keep the cow well centered and ever on the go. The final verbal joke will tickle little readers. This is a delightful visual adventure, easy to pair with Nancy E. Shaw and Margot Apple's Sheep in a Jeep (1988) and open to many sessions of independent rereading.--Goldsmith, Francisca Copyright 2010 Booklist

Everyone secretly wants a sharp red sports car to drive around-including, apparently, one otherwise unassuming dairy cow. Her interest is piqued when her farmer puts his red car out on display with a sign that reads, "Car for Sale." "Moo?" the cow asks curiously; the second the farmer is out of sight, she shouts another "Moo!" and leaps into the driver's seat. "Moooooooo..." she croons happily as she tools along through green hills. "Moooo!" she cries in triumph, all four wheels off the ground. Risky? You bet! "Moo-moo," says the cow, dismayed, as the car hurtles toward a curve. She has some explaining to do to the cop whose patrol car she totals. "Moo-moo! Moo moo-moo moo!" The cow's one-word vocabulary is a great comic device, but Wohnoutka (Just Like My Papa) produces plenty of laughs, too, with big, bold graphics and comic book-style exclamations that even kids in the back row can see. When the cow attempts to shift blame to another animal, LaRochelle (How Martha Saved Her Parents from Green Beans) briefly lets her change her tune. An utterly fun moo-aloud. Ages 3-6. (Oct.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.