Come On and Read With Me!

Is your 5-8 year-old’s screen time dictating how they think and play? Is their attention span shrinking? Let’s slow things down. Let’s go back to kids using their imagination to create. To play. Join Mrs. Udderbutter and her furry friends in Bookish Bovine, a family podcast of original stories, songs and skits. Let’s grow kids’ minds.

Pilot Episode!

How to Meet a Giant Hot Dog!

Billie Jo Jowls and the Giant Hot Dog, Ep. 1

Meet BJ, a portly dog, as she tries to make her human family feel better about a missing doll!

Upcoming Episodes

Ep. 2 – BJ runs into two characters who would change her life forever.

Ep. 3 – In hot pursuit of the Giant Hot Dog, BJ is abruptly interrupted by a dog catcher!

Ep. 4 – A cagey bird seems to be “all ears” when it comes to BJ and Pawsy!

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Kids’ Book Review #3 — Winnie the Pooh

Classic story of the lovably hungry bear and his friends Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne, decorations by E.H. Shepard Who hasn’t heard of the lovably round and hungry bear and his adventures with his...

Kids’ Book Review #2 — Sleepy Dog

When an elementary school library does a purge of old stock Sleepy Dog by Harriet Ziefert, illustrated by Norman Gorbaty When my kids were growing up, I must’ve read this book to them almost every...

Kids’ Book Review #1 — Goodnight Moon

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown, pictures by Clement Hurd As part of my endeavors of trying to grow kids’ minds by getting kids to read and write more, Mrs. Udderbutter and I are going to...
“Life is like a fire hydrant—you never know what it's about, until you sniff it.”
small furry dog face
Pawsy
BJ's best friend
“Kiss the tiny paw.”
Plop
the abandoned guinea pig
“I'm not looking at you, I"m looking about you.”
Esther
the neighborhood watch vulture

Meet the Characters

Bookish Bovine

What: The hostess with the mostest

Where: Where the green grass grows

Why: Education feeds the mind; everyone needs to eat

How: Her voice, your imagination

Host

Mrs. Udderbutter, aka SGT Udderbutter

Friend? Friend?

What: Never met a smell she didn’t like

Where: Wherever her snout takes her

Why: Because dog is dog

How: with herself and whoever wants to join her

Protagonist

Billie Jo Jowls

The story behind Bookish Bovine

me at Hogsmeade with Butterbeer
Big time Harry Potter Fan

Reading and writing was not a staple in my life until I got into trouble in elementary school. I got into trouble one day and it must’ve been big trouble because they put me in the school library for recess for a long time. I’m not sure how long it really was, but it was long enough for me to fall in love with reading books.

I loved discovering different worlds, seeing things through different perspectives, being in the shoes of different people or animals, even. From Black Beauty to a story about neighborhood cats going about their day with the humans around them oblivious to their goings-on, I loved it all.

And it made me want to create my own stories as well.