By J. Joyce - writer   Baby tuckoo was a character from children’s stories that my father would tell me as a child. In the story, a mystical “moocow” would come up to the baby and take him to a magical land. This was a common myth from Irish folklore, where children would be spirited away by a magical cow to be trained and groomed into mythical heroes, returning to do incredible feats and deeds on Earth.  I was frequently called baby tuckoo as a child, and so I chose this familiar phrase for the baby in my book. It echoes the epic coming of age journey the character embarks upon, as if he was taken by the cow to learn to be a hero.  Either that or I was f**ked up as sh*t!