The Book of the Dun Cow by Walter Wangerin Jr.

The Book of the Dun Cow
by Walter Wangerin, Jr.

Walter Wangerin's profound fantasy concerns a time when the sun turned around the earth and the animals could speak, when Chauntecleer the Rooster ruled over a more or less peaceful kingdom.

What the animals did not know was that they were the Keepers of Wyrm, monster of evil long imprisoned beneath the earth... and Wyrm, sub terra, was breaking free.

The Book of the Dun Cow is a fantasy novel by Walter Wangerin Jr.

It is loosely based upon the beast fable of Chanticleer and the Fox adapted from the story of The Nun's Priest's Tale from Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

It has two sequels.