Written by Jill Esbaum, Illustrated by Gus Gordon
Dial Books for Young Readers (2014)
Nadine can talk a blue streak, and one day she tells a real whopper: she isn’t afraid of anything- no siree! Then her friends call her bluff, and Nadine must enter… The Deep. Dark. Woods. Only the woods aren’t so scary after all, until the sun sets, that is, and Nadine can’t find her friends. What is this boastful bovine to do? Run around in blind terror? Plummet off a cliff? Crash into a stream? Check, check, and check. But is all lost? Doubtful. After all, she is cow, hear her MOOOOOOOOO!
*2015 Crystal Kite Award winner, Midwest Region, SCBWI
*Cooperative Children’s Book Center (CCBC) Choices (Best of the Year List), 2014
*Louisiana Reading Assoc. Children’s Choice nominee, 2014-2015
*Picture Book Oscars- Best Female Character in a 2014 Picture Book: Nadine http://coreyschwartz.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-2014-picture-book-oscars.html
*2016-2017 Nebraska Golden Sower award nominee
*2015 White Ravens List
*Selected for Scholastic Book Clubs
“A delightful, jaunty romp … both lyrical and funny.” – Bureau of the Center for Children’s Books (Starred review)