Escape Goat

EScape GOAT

by Ann Patchett illustrated by

Robin Preiss Glasser

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For the billy goats: Adriel, James, and Teddy —A.P. For Sasha and Ben. This and everything else.

—R.P.G.

Escape Goat Text copyright © 2020 by A nn Patchett Illust rations copyright © 2020 by Robin Preiss Glasser All rights reserved. Manufactured in China.

No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever wi thout wri tten permission except in the case of brief quotat ions embodied in cri tical art icles and reviews. For informat ion address HarperCollins Children’s Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007. www.harpercollinschildrens.com Library of Congress Cont rol Number: 2019937386 ISBN 978-0-06-288339-1 The artist used ink and watercolor to create the illust rations for this book.

Typography by Jeanne Hogle 20 21 22 23 24 SCP 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ❖ First Edi tion

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Once there was a goat who lived in a pen on a farm.

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He played hide-and-seek with the chickens on the other side of the fence.

He ran in circles until he got dizzy and watched the clouds spin overhead.

He slept in a soft bed of hay (which made a great snack if he got hungry late at night).

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“Good morning, goat!”

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It was a perfectly nice life, but he was curious about the greater world, and so he decided to escape.

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The goat went to see the horses and cows.

He ate a cabbage from the garden.

He scratched an itch on a pig’s back because the pig couldn’t reach it himself.

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Mrs. Farmer was looking at the trampled petunias in her flower bed when she noticed the goat was missing.

“The goat’s escaped!” she called.

Mr. Farmer, Uncle Nathan, and the three little Farmer children came running.

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Mr. Farmer found the goat, led him back to the pen with a carrot, and shut the gate.

Mrs. Farmer said the goat had ruined her petunias.

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