100 Goats and Granny!
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
With a hefty dollop of humor, Atinuke’s rollicking counting story takes on a life of its own when Granny’s mischievous goats start escaping. Granny’s got a goat! Granny’s got a goat! Not 1, not 2, not 3, not 4, but more and more and more and more! Excitement is in the air as Granny collects more and more goats! Eight are great, fifty are nifty . . . but when their number reaches one hundred, things start to get out of hand. There’s a brown goat beeping on the bus, a gray one sitting in the salon, a white goat stealing panties from the line, and one has gone missing altogether—who can count in all this mayhem? Beloved storyteller Atinuke has a field day following goats throughout the town, while a gleeful crowd of children try their best to track them. With colorful, spirited illustrations by Lauren Hind, here’s an uproarious read-aloud you can count on to bring giggles and smiles.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Keeping track of Granny's many, many goats is a group of local children's favorite pastime—though the incorrigible animals make it no easy feat. In rollicking, rhythmic prose, Atinuke (L Is for Love) gleefully tots up the goats by groups of 10, while recounting their mischief making, which ranges from interrupting Granny's phone calls to eating the aunties' panties right off the clothesline ("Once, the brown one stayed on the bus,/ beeping on the/ driver's horn!/ Then the gray stayed/ at the salon,/ and came out/ completely shorn!"). But when little goat 100 wanders into town, leaving havoc in its wake, Granny displays a fierce, unconditional love, admonishing a gathered crowd: "You scared my goat. You scared my goat.// You and you and you and you! You scared my goat!" Then life resets, though the final page reveals that Granny might be orchestrating some mischief herself. Hinds, making her picture book debut, employs naif-style gouache, colored pencil, and pen illustrations to immerse readers in the bustle of a verdant, tight-knit neighborhood and its abiding affection for an indomitable matriarch. Human characters are portrayed with brown skin. Ages 3–7.
