The Book of the Dun Cow
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Average rating4.2
Good struggles with Evil as Chauntecleer the rooster fights against the mysterious Wyrm.
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Chauntecleer is a rooster who runs the chicken coop in a time before humans were on Earth, an ordinary rooster, brave but also proud. He is befriended by the sad and mournful dog, Mundo Cani. Chauntecleer meets and marries a lovely hen with a beautiful voice, Pertelote. Pertelote is a refugee from a nearby coop run by the mad rooster Cockatrice, and Cockatrice, guided by the evil Wyrm, a worm who lives inside Earth, plans to go to war against the other animals. It is up to Chauntecleer to stop Wyrm and his henchman, Cockatrice, and so the war begins.
The Book of the Dun Cow is a complex story that weaves in elements of Christianity as well as Celtic mythology.
Series
2 primary booksChauntecleer the Rooster is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 1978 with contributions by Walter Wangerin Jr. and Walter Wangerin.
