The cover I feel is more straight forward ( but I am sure to be wrong). It features a small child chasing goats, a literally intimate interaction with animals which serves to capture the milieu of the text. I do wonder why this photo was taken and say why not a person milking a goat, I believe it is because that sort of picture would display a power dynamic very different than the seemingly symbiotic and natural relationship shared between the child and goats. It in away shows the quoatidianess of the interactions.