Billy Whiskers: The Autobiography of a Goat

Meet Billy Whiskers: a goat of extraordinary talent for finding trouble. When Mr. Wagner brings the mischievous billy goat home for his children, their mother's misgivings prove entirely justified. Within a single night, Billy has chewed through his rope, raided the vegetable garden, trampled the flower beds into oblivion, and led the whole family on a frantic moonlit chase. He is unrepentant, inexhaustible, and absolutely hilarious. First published in 1903, this is the book that generations of children have returned to again and again, not for quiet lessons or gentle morals, but for the pure, anarchic joy of watching a small goat with enormous horns dismantle every scrap of order in a respectable farm household. Frances Trego Montgomery writes with a light hand and a keen eye for the details that make children laugh: the crashed pans, the scattered laundry, the bewildered expressions of adults trying to contain the uncontrollable. Billy Whiskers doesn't learn to behave. He simply moves on to his next adventure, and the next, leaving a trail of devastation and delight in his wake. For readers who love animals who refuse to be tamed.