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  Let's Count Goats!

  by Mem Fox

  Counting Goats  is a fresh, funny counting book from picture book superstars Mem Fox and Jan Thomas.
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  Goat Song

  A Seasonal Life, A Short History of Herding, and the Art of Making Cheese

  by Brad Kessler

  Acclaimed novelist Brad Kessler lived in New York City but longed for a life on the land where he could grow his own food. After years of searching for a home, he and his wife, photographer Dona Ann McAdams, found a mountain farmhouse on a dead-end road, with seventy-five acres of land. One day, when Dona returned home with fresh goat milk from a neighbor's farm, Kessler made a fresh chèvre, and their life changed... (more)
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  Gregory, the Terrible Eater

  by Ariane Dewey, Mitchell Sharmat

  A very picky eater, Gregory the goat refuses the usual goat diet staples of shoes and tincans in favor of fruits, vegetables, eggs, and orange juice.
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  The Three Billy Goats Gruff

  by Janet Stevens, Paul Galdone

  Janet Stevens gives us a new look at the confrontation between three billy goats and an ugly troll. “The pictures are exceptionally well reproduced, and Stevens makes clever use of her layout, propelling the actions out of the borders at times, giving them verve and movement.”-- Booklist
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  Three Billy-Goats Gruff: A Norwegian Folktale (Easy-To-Read Folktale)

  by Ellen Appleby

  The classic folktale about three clever billy-goats who outwit the nasty troll.
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  The Three Silly Billies

  by Margie Palatini

  Three billy goats, unable to cross a bridge because they cannot pay the toll, form a car pool with The Three Bears, Little Red Riding Hood, and Jack of beanstalk fame to get past the rude Troll.
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  Little Apple Goat

  by Caroline Jayne Church

  Little Apple Goat is ordinary in every way -- except for one. Instead of munching on oats or grass or laundry left on the line, she prefers to eat fruit from the orchard. But one stormy night, all of the fruit trees in the orchard are destroyed. The trunks are chopped down and the land is cleared. The farm animals cannot imagine life without the orchard, and Little Apple Goat doesn't know how she will manage... (more)
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  The Year of the Goat

  40,000 Miles and the Quest for the Perfect Cheese

  by Margaret Hathaway

  From Maine to Arizona, and back again, Margaret and Karl and their dog, Godfrey, travel across America in search of green pastures, simple tradition, and the perfect goat cheese.
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  Trudy

  by Henry Cole

  When Esme meets Trudy at the county auction, she knows there's something really special about her. "She's quite a goat!" But she doesn't know how special, until she takes her home: Trudy can predict the weather. Esme's goat becomes a local superstar! "Heard you've got quite a goat!" But one day, Trudy disappears inside her barn and doesn't come back out. What's wrong with Trudy? Esme is... (more)
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  Huck Runs Amuck!

  by Sean Taylor

  Meet Huck. He loves flowers. FLOWERS, FLOWERS, FLOWERS. And he'll do whatever it takes to get a mouthful: climb the highest mountain, walk a tightrope, even defy speeding trains! It's true, he can't resist! But when his mad dash up a church spire is mistaken for a heroic attempt to save Mrs. Spooner's flowery hat (rather than a determined effort to eat it), Huck has a crisis of conscience. Can anything deter this... (more)
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  What comes after

  by Steve Watkins

  After the death of her father, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight is uprooted from her hometown in Maine and sent to live on a farm in Craven County, North Carolina, with her hard-bitten aunt Sue and her hulking, monosyllabic cousin, Book. Almost immediately, Iris, a vegetarian and animal lover, clashes with Aunt Sue, who mistreats her livestock, fritters away Iris’s small inheritance, and thinks nothing of striking Iris... (more)
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  Goat Knowledge: Book 1

  How to Keep Goats Healthy

  by Felicity McCullough

  The book contains valuable information about keeping goats and what you can do regulary to keep them healthy.
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  The Night Swimmer

  by Matt Bondurant

  A suspenseful novel about a young American couple who win a pub on the southern most tip of Ireland.
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  Storey's Guide to Raising Dairy Goats, 4th Edition: Breeds, Care, Dairying, Marketing

  by Jerry Belanger

  With minimal space and housing needs, dairy goats are a practical choice for the small or backyard dairy farmer. Dairy goats require a smaller investment than Cows and produce easily digested milk that is much in demand for making yogurt, cheese, and other dairy products. The revised and updated fourth edition includes: Updated information on disease diagnosis and treatment Tips on choosing pygmy breeds ... (more)
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  Ten Miles Past Normal

  by Frances O'Roark Dowell

  Janie Gorman wants to be normal. The problem with that: she’s not. She’s smart and creative and a little bit funky. She’s also an unwilling player in her parents’ modern-hippy, let’s-live-on-a-goat-farm experiment (regretfully, instigated by a younger, much more enthusiastic Janie). This, to put it simply, is not helping Janie reach that “normal target.” She has to milk goats every day…and endure her mother’s... (more)
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  The Goat Lady

  by Jane Bregoli

  Grade 2-4–An elderly French Canadian named Noelie often drew criticism from the Dartmouth, MA, townsfolk because she kept a herd of white goats in her yard. Neighbors complained that the animals were noisy and unruly and that the house was unkempt. The author and her children befriended the old woman and found that she was gentle and kind. When Bregoli's daughter asked her to paint a picture of the Goat Lady, the... (more)
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  Homesteading

  A Back to Basics Guide to Growing Your Own Food, Canning, Keeping Chickens, Generating Your Own Energy, Crafting, Herbal Medicine, and More

  by Abigail R. Gehring

  The companion to the bestseller Back to Basics for country, urban, and suburban folks. Who doesn’t want to shrink their carbon footprint, save money, and eat homegrown food whenever possible? Even readers who are very much on the grid will embrace this large, fully-illustrated guide on the basics of living the good, clean life. It’s written with country lovers in mind—even those who currently live in the... (more)
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  Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. It is believed his story is based on the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra."
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  Gordon in Charge

  by Jill Newton

  Gordon the goat is in charge of everything in the farmyard until one day a new goose, also named Gordon, arrives and insists that he can run the farm better than Gordon the goat. The two animals compete with each other in races and contests, but it isn't until they are both stuck on top of the barn, scared and helpless, that they find out who is really in charge-Gordon the farmer!
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  The three billy goats fluff

  by Rachael Mortimer

  When Mr Troll threatens to eat the Three Billy Goats Fluff for trip-trapping over his bridge too loudly, Mother Goat comes up with a fluffy plan to keep everyone happy!