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.

BIO

Atinuke is a Nigerian-born author of children's books and an oral storyteller of traditional African folktales.

REVIEWS

"Rollicking, rhythmic prose." -- Publishers Weekly

"Atinuke’s text rollicks while Hinds’ illustrations urge readers to slow down to take in every delicious detail. . . Great goatish fun." -- Kirkus Reviews

"The energy of the interactive text enables this story to work well as a group read-aloud, while the illustrations, full of funny details to note and one hundred mischievous goats to count and recount, make it equally effective for close looking and sharing." -- The Horn Book

[H]  Candlewick Press (MA)  /  May 20, 2025

0.5" H x 11.2" L x 8.8" W (1.0 lbs) 40 pages

For ages 3 to 7