Escape Goat

Name: Escape Goat
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Ann Patchett
ISBN: 9780063018037

Author: Ann Patchett

Narrator: Ann Patchett

Unabridged: 7 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 09/22/2020

Categories: Children's Fiction, Animal Stories, Children's Humor

Synopsis

From the international bestselling author of Bel Canto, Ann Patchett, comes a hilarious children’s audiobook about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time, read by the author! The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat’s fault. Who’s to blame when Mrs. Farmer’s petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie’s party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is spilled? Of course, everyone blames the goat! But is it really his fault?

About Ann Patchett

It seems that some people are just natural born authors. American author, Ann Patchett, is one of those people. She was born in Los Angeles, California in 1963 to a police captain and a nurse, who divorced when Ann was a young girl. Her mother remarried and moved the family to Nashville, Tennessee in 1969.

Ann attended St Bernard Academy school for girls in Nashville, then attended Sarah Lawrence College, followed by the Iowa Writer's Workshop at University of Iowa and Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. It was Provincetown where she wrote her first novel, The Patron Saint of Liars, followed by Taft, The Magician's Assistant, Bel Canto, Run, State of Wonder, and Commonwealth. Three of her books are non-fiction......Truth and Beauty, What Now?, and This is the Story of a Happy Marriage. Her first children's book came in 2019, Lambslide, and was beautifully illustrated by Robin Preiss Glasser. Her books have been translated into more than 30 languages.

After winning numerous literary awards and being on bestseller lists, Ann co-founded her own bookstore, Parnassus Books in Nashville, Tennessee with Karen Hayes. She currently lives in Nashville with her husband, Karl VanDevender, and their dog Sparky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rod on November 24, 2020

One of those books where the pun comes first and everything else is there to prop it up. In this case we have a clever conflation of a goat who escapes his pen with everyone on the farm using him as a scapegoat to cover their own errors and acts of mischief. Despite the pretty pictures, the executio......more

Goodreads review by Deb (Readerbuzz) on November 04, 2020

The Farmers' goat keeps escaping out of his pen. Each time he escaped the family members saw it would be easy to blame their own transgressions on him. He became a convenient scapegoat, if you will. Eventually the family had to acknowledge their own complicity in the wrongdoings when they noticed th......more

Goodreads review by John of Canada on February 17, 2022

3.5 stars. I loved the artwork. The story was cute but somehow I expected a little more from Ann Patchett.......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on May 14, 2020

See my full review here: [URL not allowed] ESCAPE GOAT is an adorable picture book that ultimately teaches about scapegoating and the need for honesty. The goat lives with the Farmers and is happy in his pen, but he wants to meet other animals and find new adventures, so he kee......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on June 09, 2021

A cute story, but the pun will be completely lost on the target audience. The poor goat escapes from his pen to have some fun, and everyone on the farm who screws up blames him for their mistakes. This could be a good addition to a story time on telling the truth or goats or farms, but it's not outs......more