What’s more, Leila discovers that baking with them is fun! Win or lose, she has already tasted the sweetest thing of all: acceptance-with a pinch of nightshade and a bit of mandrake. Luckily, Leila has three magical sisters who are happy to share their culinary secrets with her. But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible truth: she’s a disaster in the kitchen. She has won trophies for potions, herbology, and alchemy-and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off! As the youngest in a long line of masters of the Dark Arts of Patisserie, Leila wants her entry to be perfect. She’s the fastest flier, the most cunning conjuror, and the most superb shape-shifter. Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does. In this charming picture book from the author-illustrator of Gustavo, The Shy Ghost, a witch who is spellbindingly good at everything discovers that baking is no piece of cake. Closing scenes of the animal friends nursing the cow back to health bring a tender lull to the riotous story time―until a final twist dissolves the peace in giggles once again. Written in playful rhyme that will shine at an interactive story time, the text includes a repeated refrain that will have listeners chiming in with many an exuberant, 'The cow said, BOO!' Watercolor illustrations by Alice Carter catch both the eye and the heart with their humor and energy. But the cow is able to bravely turn this misunderstanding to her advantage when a truly scary intruder arrives at the farm…In The Cow Said BOO!, author Lana Button delivers a silly read-aloud for a not-so-spooky Halloween, or any time of year. Poor cow woke up with such a bad cold that every 'moo' comes out as 'boo!' When she stumbles into a sheet hanging from the clothesline, her barnyard friends mistake her for a spooky ghost and run away. A quintessential read-aloud for a lively story time.

A stuffed-up cow, a rogue bedsheet, and a chantable silly refrain.

Pumpkin cat anne mortimer