When Farmer Brown's cows find a typewriter in the barn they start making demands, and go on strike when the farmer refuses to give them what they want.
Six-year-old Sandra, warned to stay close to home on her pony Chico, learns an important lesson when she rides too far one day to see a newborn calf, and she and Chico encounter a rattlesnake. Based on an incident from the life of Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Lily will someday be the "bell cow," leading her herd, but because her prancing and dancing only disrupts their order, she travels the world looking for the right place and dance for her.
In a sense, the farmer's cow is also owned by the neighbor girl who thinks about her, the milkman who buys her milk, the painter who paints her, and any others who appreciate her.
A cartoon cow with a bell collar sees her farmer set up a car for sale. With a single excited "moo" the cow jumps in and goes for a joy ride, invariably wrecking the car.