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A review by capturedinwords
The Goat by Anne Fleming
4.0
My video review: https://youtu.be/inCf9n7Q2JY
I won The Goat in a Goodreads giveaway, and am quite happy I did. It took me about half-way into the book to realise I've heard of it before. One of my professors mentioned that her friend had written a book about a goat living on top of a building in New York city. Wow you think with how niche that is I would have picked up on it earlier.
The Goat was a quick entertaining children's book with a surprising amount of real life issues. Issues such as: dealing with extreme shyness/social anxiety (something I've struggled with for most of my life), health problems, age, the loss of parents who died in 9/11, and more. I wans't expecting a childrens book to touch on these topics, but it was nice that it did. For that I would say this book can be enjoyed by both adults and children.
The only minor negative I had was with the ending. It wasn't bad per say, but it wasn't great either. I felt like there could have been more of a conclusion for a certain city-living ruminant animal.
I won The Goat in a Goodreads giveaway, and am quite happy I did. It took me about half-way into the book to realise I've heard of it before. One of my professors mentioned that her friend had written a book about a goat living on top of a building in New York city. Wow you think with how niche that is I would have picked up on it earlier.
The Goat was a quick entertaining children's book with a surprising amount of real life issues. Issues such as: dealing with extreme shyness/social anxiety (something I've struggled with for most of my life), health problems, age, the loss of parents who died in 9/11, and more. I wans't expecting a childrens book to touch on these topics, but it was nice that it did. For that I would say this book can be enjoyed by both adults and children.
The only minor negative I had was with the ending. It wasn't bad per say, but it wasn't great either. I felt like there could have been more of a conclusion for a certain city-living ruminant animal.