The Queen's Goat
by Margaret Mahy
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A young queen and her runaway goat make quite a showing at the pet fair, where they win an unexpected prize.Tags
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This book was just okay. A cute tale about a young queen who, for fear of mess, is not allowed to have a pet. This becomes a problem when she is invited to the village pet show...but she solves the problem by stealing the gardner's goat! The goat proceeds to drag her on a rampage through the whole countryside, picking up random bits of stuff as they go along. The punchline- the goat wins the best dressed award at the show, and is therefore allowed to become the official Royal Mascot. This book is pure fun with no real lesson, the illustrations are just nice, and the story is so-so. If read correctly, however, children would certainly enjoy.
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Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. show more During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- A good queen knows how to hang on tightly.
Horrakapotchkin!
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