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Bill Grogan's Goat

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Bill Grogan's goat is another great read/sing book. This is also one of the MENC recommended American folk songs that all children should know. It comes with the music in the front of the book. My students' ask me for this book often and I find it hard to resist them. It is an especially good classroom book, because the hardcover version is very big so all your students can see the pictures. You and your class can sing it in echo format or as written. It's hilarious from beginning to finish. Wonderful.

My 3 year old absolutely loves this story and thinks it is very funny. However, she surprised me one night when we got to the page with the food on it, she started pretending to take the food and feed it to the goat. It really showed me she had sympathy for the goat. Now its a game - she can't wait for me to get to that page to "feed the goat" again.

This book has wonderful rhyming text, terrific illustrations and a story that's fun to read.
Bill Grogan begins by hanging wash on the clothesline while the goat reclines in the grass watching and munching a long piece of grass. He's reading a magazine with empty tin cans all around him;great details that can lead to lots of conversation with young children. The goat gets in trouble for eating the clean shirts and has a wonderful adventure on a train where he gives the shirts away to animals in need. The shirts get dirty, the animals wash them and hang them on the line, and there goes Bill Grogan's goat again!

Children love the story but it may not serve a large group well because of the small illustrations. They will love listening to what happens to Bill Grogan's goat!