A Cow Called Boy is a coming-of-age text which displays the connection that a boy, Josh, and his pet calf, Boy, have and how this relationship teaches the boy responsibility as well as to stand up for what is right; even against the authoritarian and objectionable demands of adults.
A touching story of Josh's fight to save his hand-reared bull-calf, Boy, from the butcher's greedy hands. Synopsis: A Cow Called Boy is a humorous and dramatic true-to-life novella or novelette which can be enjoyed as a serialized bedtime story read to pre-literate tots.
It is also called Paronomasia. It´s a play on words that produces a humorous effect by using a word that suggests two or more meanings or by using similar sounding words with different meanings. The humorous effects depend upon the ambiguities the words involved.
