00985cam a2200217 4500 545747084 TxAuBib 000000s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780473327781 0473327783 TxAuBib Somervell, Jennifer. Day DAD Blew up the Cowshed. Tales from the Farm Publications, 2014. 43 pages. Blowing up the cowshed - this farm tale really happened! In the 160's and 70's it wasn't unusual for retunred servicemen and their farmer sons in New Zealand to blow things up. For Jennifer and Margery, growing up on a farm in Hawkes Bay, blowing up the cowshed was a momentous event in their childhood. Here is the story is told just as the experienced it - vivid in detail, action and unforeseen consequences!. 2-5 grade. 6-8 years old. Explosions. Fern, Margery.