Goat's Coat
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From author and illustrator Tom Percival, creator of the bestselling Big Bright Feelings series, a beautifully illustrated, uplifting picture book that is bursting with kindness and good deeds
'A real winner - great to look at and with a feel-good factor to match.' Books My Toddler Loves
Alfonzo the goat couldn't be happier. He's just got himself a dashing new coat and he feels like a million dollars. But when he discovers some creatures in need of help, will Alfonzo be able to part with his treasured possession to save the day?
Let me tell you the tale of Alfonzo the goat,
Who was terribly fond of his lovely new coat ...
The perfect picture-book pick-me-up showing that love, kindness and friendship make the best recipe for happiness.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In buoyant rhymed couplets and well-executed meter, Percival (Perfectly Norman) underscores the rewards of resourcefulness and care in this cheering friendship story. Winsome multimedia art by Pym (Little Mouse's Big Breakfast) shows Alfonzo the goat cutting a dapper figure, clad in a flashy checked coat that is admired by all the neighborhood animals. When he hears the sad croaking of a frog family whose log has rotted away, the goat selflessly rips the cuffs off his jacket to fashion a boat for them. "Alfonzo's new coat didn't look quite so smart,/ but he felt a warm glow in the depths of his heart." The jacket becomes increasingly unraveled as Alfonzo tears off bits and pieces to aid other friends, until the garment is reduced to a collar and a pocket, which, in a particularly moving scene, he uses to save a chick stranded in a tree. When the coatless ungulate ends up shivering in a blizzard, his pals pay his kindness forward, and the story leads to a rewarding and colorful finale featuring Alfonzo and other animal friends sporting dazzling cold-weather garb. Ages 3 6.
