Cow and Sow

Take a spin on the ice with Cow and Sow in this warm and witty picture book about the uplifting power of friendship from award-winning author Matthew Farina and Caldecott medalist Doug Salati.

It's wintertime, and old friends Cow and Sow are bored of being cooped up inside. When the two take a walk and literally stumble onto a frozen pond, they discover the thrills of skating — the gliding, the spinning, the jumping!

But as their newfound fun takes a competitive turn, things heat up. Soon it isn’t just the ice that’s beginning to crack . . .

The pair behind the Ezra Jack Keats Honor award-winning picture book Lawrence in the Fall team up again in this tongue-in-cheek homage to one of figure-skating’s most essential jumps, the Salchow! | MATTHEW FARINA is a painter and children’s book author. His 2019 book, Lawrence in the Fall (also illustrated by Doug Salati), received an Ezra Jack Keats Honor for writing and a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Matthew now lives in New York City and in the woods of Sullivan County, New York.

DOUG SALATI is the author and illustrator of Hot Dog, winner of the 2023 Caldecott Medal and the Ezra Jack Keats Illustrator Award, and named one of the best books of the year by the Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews and the New York Public Library. He is the illustrator of Lawrence in the Fall by Matthew Farina, for which he received an Ezra Jack Keats Honor for illustration, and Words with Wings and Magic Things by Matthew Burgess, a School Library Journal Best Book of 2025, a Kirkus Reviews Best Middle Grade of 2025 and an ALA Notable Children’s Book of 2026. A 2015 Sendak Fellow, Doug lives and works in New York City.