The Pet Goat

[mikelewis]

From Wikipedia...

"The Pet Goat" (erroneously known as "My Pet Goat") is a children's story contained in the book Reading Mastery II: Storybook 1, by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner (ISBN 0-02-686355-3). The book is part of the thirty-one volume Reading Mastery series published by the SRA Macmillan early-childhood education division of McGraw-Hill. It uses the direct instruction teaching style.

Plot
Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

"The Pet Goat" is the story of a girl's pet goat which eats everything in its path. The girl's parents want to get rid of the goat, but she defends it. In the end, the goat becomes a hero when it butts a car robber into submission. A sample passage:

A girl got a pet goat. She liked to go running with her pet goat. She played with her goat in her house. She played with her goat in her yard. But the goat did some things that made the girl's dad mad. The goat ate things. He ate cans and he ate canes. He ate pans and he ate panes. He even ate capes and caps.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pet_Goat

This book is a real page turner folks... Honestly, I couldn't put it down. Oddly enough, I was reading it on the day my house burned down. While it burned, I just sat there reading and reading while those I cared about roasted and then died in the collapse.

[Richard D]

1. And please, read the comments!

http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Mastery-Level-Storybook-Rainbow/dp/0026863553/sr=8-1/qid=1157987621/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-9402020-9213415?ie=UTF8&s=books

Interesting, but tough book to understand, June 28, 2006
Reviewer: St. Louis Book Lover (Edwardsville, IL United States) - See all my reviews
I really really liked this book (a lot, in other words) but the problem is, My Friend Andy interrupted me while I was reading this book, so it was tough for me to concentrate long enough to get what the book was saying, but I think the book had something to do with Iraq and making money from a lemonade stand or oil or something like that. It was a real good book though, but I wish my other friend (her name is Laura, and she's my wife because I'm straight, and the constitution allows me to be married to a girl--cool!) hadn't told me that it was mostly a picture book because the truth is, there were A LOT of words in there too. But sometimes when there are a lot of words in something, you can get somebody (like my other friend, who is not my wife, Condi) to read it out loud to you, though that doesn't mean you'll always pay attention to what she's reading, especially not when you're on VACATION!! No homework during vacation, no way!

Anyway, you should (everyone should, it's your patriotic duty) read more books about goats and stuff, and even if your house is on fire or something, DON'T STOP READING THE BOOK because that would PANIC everybody! And we all know that people shouldn't react like it's an emergency when the house is on fire or stuff.

So -- real cool book, but very very tough book. And I can honestly say, when people ask me, yes, our children is learning, and I am kind of learning too, but not so much people will make fun of me for being one of those bookworms who are SO WEIRD!

[bleedingheart]

2. they are pretty funny