Albi the Glowing Cow Boy

by Georgia Byng, Levi Pinfold (Illustrator)

On a quiet farm in a frosty England, under the glowing light of a magical milk moon, a boy calf is born. His name is Albi, and he has no idea how extraordinary he is going to be. Several miles away lives a human boy called Rufus. Rufus is extraordinary in his own way, but he has no friends and no one to love him. Rufus seeks the family he never had, and he'll go to any lengths to find it. Albi and Rufus must each embark on a journey that will take them across continents, showing them things they never believed could be true. But why are they so deeply connected? And will each extraordinary 'boy' find what they're searching for? An epic, one-of-a-kind story to encourage empathy and open questioning minds. Cover illustration by Levi Pinfold with interior illustrations by Angela Cogo.

322 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 322

About the author

Lady Georgia Mary Caroline Byng, (b. 1965), is a British author of children's books and a former actress. Her first writing was for a comic strip, and her first published book was The Sock Monsters. Byng's best known work is Molly Moon's Incredible Book of Hypnotism and its sequels, about a girl who finds a book about hypnotism and learns how to hypnotize people. Georgia's first published item was a comic strip for kids from the age of five to seven.

Reviews

[Margaret McCulloch-Keeble · Rating 1 out of 5]

There's a fine line between bonkers and ludicrous. I like bonkers. This was ludicrous. I'm all in favour of letting youngsters know the harsh but honest realities of the meat trade, so they can come to their own conclusions, but to lodge those facts in amongst a story where a herd of cows, some of which are giant sized and some which glow in the dark, escape from the abattoir and walk from Stonehenge to Dover in two nights and then onto France through the Chunnel, whilst being followed by a 12 year old boy who has absconded from home to hunt animals complete with various firearms is beyond me.

[trijnewijn · Rating 4 out of 5]

De dochter was fan en gewoon al voor de schattigheid van Albi ben ik blij dat ik het ook las. De “willful suspension of disbelief“ is keihard nodig bij dit boek, maar als je het leest als een sprookje dan is het een mooie. Met een moraal die steeds actueler wordt zolang vlees zoveel land, tijd en grondstoffen gebruikt en de klimaatverandering in de hand blijft werken.