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Supermoo!
Operating out of their Cowcave headquarters, Supermoo, a superheroine Holstein, and her trusty sidekick, Calf Crypton, battle the evil forces of pollution that are out to destroy the world.
- GenresPicture BooksSuperheroes
32 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1992
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Babette Cole
109 books76 followersBabette Cole was a British children's author and illustrator. Born on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands in 1949, she attended the Canterbury College of Art (now the University for the Creative Arts) and received first-class BA Honors. She worked on such children's programmes as Bagpuss (working with Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin) and Jackanory for BBC television.
As a children's writer, Cole created more than 150 picture books. Her best-seller Doctor Dog has been adapted as a successful children's cartoon series. Much of her work is earthy comedy, having titles like The Smelly Book, The Hairy Book, The Slimy Book and The Silly Book.
She spent her time writing, visiting schools and traveling. After a short illness she died on 15 January 2017, aged 66.
As a children's writer, Cole created more than 150 picture books. Her best-seller Doctor Dog has been adapted as a successful children's cartoon series. Much of her work is earthy comedy, having titles like The Smelly Book, The Hairy Book, The Slimy Book and The Silly Book.
She spent her time writing, visiting schools and traveling. After a short illness she died on 15 January 2017, aged 66.
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August 22, 2020
I am aware of many super heroes but I have never before come across a super cow! But here is Supermoo!, who is the bovine equivalent of Batman, in that she is a caped crusader who occasionally drives around in her Cowmobile! She also inhabits her Cowcave, and with her friend Calf Crypton, she surveys the world's disasters on her cowputer!
She is determined to keep the country clean and green so when she spots news of some rascally Bots, evil spreaders of filth and pollution, spreading fog in the English Channel and causing two treacle tankers to collide, she and Calf are immediately on the case. They bash the Bots and, with their magnetic hoofs, pick the tankers up and fly them to safety.
However, all is not over, for the resultant treacle slick is heading towards Miss Pimple's swimming class. Supermoo thinks swiftly and comes up with an ingenious method of gathering up the treacle and saving Miss Pimple's class. Then a message comes through on her electronic ear piece and she flies off, taking the rescued treacle slick with her, to avert an oil-rig disaster and in doing so she provides Miss Pimple's class with plentiful supplies of treacle toffee!
Job done and it is then off to more mundane matters. She receives a message on her Cowsign beam and she shoots off in the Cowmobile to attend a much more cow-friendly mission!
'Supermoo!' is a fun story for the children, well told and illustrated by Babette Cole.
She is determined to keep the country clean and green so when she spots news of some rascally Bots, evil spreaders of filth and pollution, spreading fog in the English Channel and causing two treacle tankers to collide, she and Calf are immediately on the case. They bash the Bots and, with their magnetic hoofs, pick the tankers up and fly them to safety.
However, all is not over, for the resultant treacle slick is heading towards Miss Pimple's swimming class. Supermoo thinks swiftly and comes up with an ingenious method of gathering up the treacle and saving Miss Pimple's class. Then a message comes through on her electronic ear piece and she flies off, taking the rescued treacle slick with her, to avert an oil-rig disaster and in doing so she provides Miss Pimple's class with plentiful supplies of treacle toffee!
Job done and it is then off to more mundane matters. She receives a message on her Cowsign beam and she shoots off in the Cowmobile to attend a much more cow-friendly mission!
'Supermoo!' is a fun story for the children, well told and illustrated by Babette Cole.
July 18, 2019
A Great & Wacky Superhero Story With An Environmental Message.
September 9, 2015
Why did this book get a second star from me? Well because the name SuperMoo is kinda cute.
I just can't stand when I pick up a book that looks like a superhero story for kids and it ends up with some second agenda such as telling parents to stop polluting! Sure, polluting is a great subject to teach your kids about, but I wasn't looking in the educational book section, I was looking at fiction. My boys are currently ages 2 and 4. They could care less if SuperMoo is teaching a lesson, they want to see a superhero get the bad guys! The very reason we picked up this book.
The kids obviously had no idea about the hidden lesson, but I was irritated. It's the second book in a week that we have found like this.
Again, I think it is a great lesson book. This would probably work fantastic for a teacher doing a segment in class on harming the environment. However, when I'm taking my little ones to bed, I admit I enjoy stepping with them into some magical story and this really doesn't do it for me.
I just can't stand when I pick up a book that looks like a superhero story for kids and it ends up with some second agenda such as telling parents to stop polluting! Sure, polluting is a great subject to teach your kids about, but I wasn't looking in the educational book section, I was looking at fiction. My boys are currently ages 2 and 4. They could care less if SuperMoo is teaching a lesson, they want to see a superhero get the bad guys! The very reason we picked up this book.
The kids obviously had no idea about the hidden lesson, but I was irritated. It's the second book in a week that we have found like this.
Again, I think it is a great lesson book. This would probably work fantastic for a teacher doing a segment in class on harming the environment. However, when I'm taking my little ones to bed, I admit I enjoy stepping with them into some magical story and this really doesn't do it for me.
October 22, 2011
A funny picture book with an environmental message. I remember reading this on my first teaching practice many years ago!
June 7, 2015
Fun story, environmental theme. "Bots" who spew pollution look like huge scary bumblebees. This would be great for the K-3 set!
February 1, 2016
A bit preachy.
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