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Title	:	The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster #1)
Author	:	Walter Wangerin Jr.
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 256 pages
Published	:	August 14th 2003 by HarperOne (first published 1978)
Categories	:	Fantasy. Fiction. Animals. Classics. Christian. Christian Fiction. Young Adult

The Book of the Dun Cow (Chauntecleer the Rooster #1)

Walter Wangerin Jr.

Paperback | Pages: 256 pages

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This unique book, written in 1978, is grisly, gritty, earthy, painful, and beautiful. I have never read anything like this book before. It is a creation of great courage. Wangerin has taken stark good and evil and played them out in an almost predictable manner, unafraid of arrangements that could be called clichéd, trite, childish, overused. He uses mythology freely. It might at first seem hopelessly dated; rather, it is hopefully dated, it is searingly modern, it is genuinely classic and therefore timeless. It is a Medieval morality play, characters sharply drawn, clean-cut bestial caricatures—but they are fully human. It is in the diction of the Old Testament. Full of talking animals, a small-scale realm unto itself, an epic of good-and-evil with Homeric battles, virtues and vices embodied in fur, noses, claws, wings, beaks…, great geo-political problems ensconced in a farmyard or forest. The creatures are real, three-dimensional, lovable and complex. The battles are heart-breaking, as bloody and horrific as those before the walls of Troy, yet the combatants are ants, sheep, rabbits, a dog, a weasel, against basilisks.

The diction has the weight of the Prophets, the phrases the tone of another world. Humour, suffering, courage, and profound meaning are couched in the very words of this brilliantly written book. It is a novel unlike any other, and you must read it, read every word, to understand and know what words can do.

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Original Title:	The Book of the Dun Cow
ISBN:	0060574607 (ISBN13: 9780060574604)
Edition Language:	English URL http://www.walterwangerinjr.org/new_web/publish.php
Series:	Chauntecleer the Rooster #1
Characters:	Chauntecleer the Rooster, Pertelote, Mundo Cani
Literary Awards:	National Book Award for Science Fiction (Paperback) (1980)

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The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin, Jr. San Francisco, Harper Collins, 2003 (25th Anniversary Edition).Summary: This modern animal fable portrays a conflict between the beasts of the Earth with Wyrm of the underworld and his evil surrogates, and the heroism of a rooster, a dog, and the other beasts."Marooooned". This modern-day animal fable (first published in 1978) begins with this mournful and persisting cry from Mundo Cani Dog who, against the will of Lord of the Coop Chauntecleer,

Book Club this month decided that we would all choose a former National Book Award winner. I decided to pick the weirdest thing on the list, and a story inspired by Chaucer where farm animals unite to defeat evil, seemed like the right choice. It was a fun departure from my comfort zone. It did feel a bit too clever at times, which took me out of the story a bit, but overall, Im glad that I gave it a chance. It even left me with enough of a cliffhanger that Ill read the next book in the series.

I'd give this 5.5 stars if I could. This book has been compared to Watership Down and Animal Farm, both of which are fair comparisons. In all three stories, you have anthropomorphic animals in a contest of good and evil. In Watership Down and Animal Farm, the battle is primarily political/social, with spiritual elements certainly, but a soulless tyrannical political ideology must be fought by imperfect individuals who recognize the necessity of individuality and liberty for a truly "animal"

A true departure in the types of books I've been reading lately. This fanciful allegory quickly becomes a struggle of good verses evil. The kicker is that the participants seem so caught up in their individuals lives, they don't even recognize evil until it is already in the door. Heart wrenching battles, miscommunications, faith, unexpected loyalties, courage, selflessness, greed, disappointments. An interesting commentary on human nature.

This unique book, written in 1978, is grisly, gritty, earthy, painful, and beautiful. I have never read anything like this book before. It is a creation of great courage. Wangerin has taken stark good and evil and played them out in an almost predictable manner, unafraid of arrangements that could be called clichéd, trite, childish, overused. He uses mythology freely. It might at first seem hopelessly dated; rather, it is hopefully dated, it is searingly modern, it is genuinely classic and

This is NOT a children's book.

If I had never had sons, how could I lose sons? If I had never ruled a land, how could I fear to lose the land? It is in the giving that treachery begins. If I had never loved these animals, which the almighty God put into my keeping, I would not die thinking that they may die.""Battles, battles-how many to make a war? And when you have won one, then what have you won?