Wood Cow Chronicles

by Rick Johnson

Includes all four volumes of the Wood Cow Chronicles series in a single bundle:

Helga: Out of Hedgelands
The Overending
Silversion
Willowers

Genres: Fantasy

1228 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 9, 2015

About the author

I am a community-builder, author, and educator leveraging the power of storytelling to promote equality, justice, and humanity’s reconciliation for peace and unity.

Storytelling is a social force.

In many ways, we are the stories we tell ourselves and that we tell about each other. Beyond providing an entertaining story for readers, I hope to contribute to changing the narratives we tell ourselves and that we tell about each other. I want to offer what I can in the way of breaking us out of the mental boxes made up of the stories we tell.

I hope that my stories will bring hope when we are wearied with humanity's monotony of pain, inspire active doubt when we're told that every human problem is insoluble, strengthen our resolve when everything around us seems to be shaking, cause a smile when the ugly face of despair is leering at us, and stimulate us to reexamine our own cherished assumptions underlying the stories we tell. My heroines and heroes do not yield to the overwhelming power of tyranny, but serve the cause of equality, justice, and freedom for all. They speak aloud when malevolent forces try to crush their minds.

I tell stories about active love for the weak and powerless; valiant and courageous collaborative action to advance the justice, equality, freedom, and respect that must underlie any lasting unity. As an author, I’m drawn to eccentric, unexpected characters: those who surprise because they hear a distant galaxy, see a different music, create their own song or story rather than get hooked on a soundtrack; the child who has her or his own ideas about how the emperor is dressed; the lunatics and rebels who tell stories on the boundaries.

Wood Cows think differently. Join the adventure!

Reviews

[Lisa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant Fun Fantasy for all ages

This series of books is perhaps one of the most enjoyable fantasy series I've read in a long while. Filled with wonderful authentic characters who display astounding acts of bravery and heroism from the seemingly smallest weakest of creatures. There are also some truly vile and despicable villains as well. There are no humans in this world. Only animals of every type and description. The world building is absolutely amazing! I so love the names made up for the characters as well as for foods and drinks and place names. Everything is so original and fun. I can't say enough about how terriffic these books are. Now I'm going to read them to my grandchildren. Excellent books. Just excellent.

[Joel]

DNFed at 1%. I'm not in the mood to read anything that requires an interpreter to understand what the characters are saying.

[Michael Moffett · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book series The Wood Cow Chronicles by: Rick Johnson is spectacular to say the least,it is a perfect balance of action and mystery. The main concept of the book is the opposition of tyranny and corruption in many forms, the characters that oppose the corruption are a hodgepodge group of rebels that will seemingly be completely unconnected then boom you will remember some old story one of them told the you will realize they they are long lost cousins. That is one aspect of the book I love, something will be said or a little detail will be mentioned that seems like nothing but then all of a sudden it will turn into something huge. That same concept will apply to the introduction of characters, the book will flash to a random person in some different time period and tell a story about them and you won't know why then all of a sudden they will tell that little piece of information that is the final piece to the puzzle and it will all make sense. That are only some of the great things about the book it would take a book series bigger than the actual series to say all the great things about the book so if you where wondering if you should read the series the answer is yes!