Provides an introduction to goats, explaining why goats are farmed, looking at the anatomy and life cycles of goats, describing different breeds, and discussing goats as sources of milk and meat.
Simple text, vocabulary words, and discussion questions combine with a story about Cat, who asks Goat to ride in his boat, unaware that Cat has something devious planned.
Goat offers to go to the market for Donkey, but he gets a bit muddled in spite of the list and buys some perfectly wonderful things--none of which can be eaten for dinner.
the story of a goat named Oat and a chewed-up coat
Hale, Dean
2011
Each time something goes wrong in the Choat household Jimmy blames the pet goat, Patsy Petunia Oat, who tries to tell the truth about Jimmy's misdeeds but neither Mr. nor Mrs. Choat can understand her language.