When Pete the flying pig meets sometimes cantankerous Carlotta the dancing cow, they learn sometimes being a friend means accepting others just the way they are.
In the farmland outside Gotham City, all the farm animals are under the control of the Mad Catter, who is making them behave in bizarre ways and steal all the crops.
Rhyming text relates the adventures of two cows who long to be cowgirls as they head to the rodeo, participate in a hoedown, and experience other aspects of the "Buckamoo Girl" life.
While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, learns some important lessons about living and dying from an elderly poet and her cow.
Jesus weeps for the poor cow locked out of the barn on that cold Nativity night, and though a helpless baby He works a way to bring the cow into the warmth.
