Who Owns the Cow? — Andrew Clements

Simple, playful text and colorful paintings in an American primitive style explore the many ways the farmer's cow can be owned: by the neighbor girl who thinks about her, the milkman who buys her milk, the garden growing richer from her manure, the painter who paints her, and the author who writes about her. Young children will discover, in this dazzling picture-book debut, that they own the cow themselves.