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THE GOAT

Anne Fleming

When Kid accompanies her parents to New York City for a six-month stint of dog-sitting and home-schooling, she sees what looks like a tiny white cloud on top of their apartment building.

Rumor says there's a goat living on the roof, but how can that be?

Part mystery and part animal-rescue story, The Goat is about an unnamed goat that inadvertently changes the lives of the eccentric denizens of an apartment building, as they each come to terms with grief, loneliness, shyness, illness and fear.

A warm and quirky story with an engaging cast of characters, this is an accessible but richly themed middle-grade novel with a wide grade appeal.

ZIEGEN BRINGEN GLueCK
Deutch von Ingo Herzke
Bilder von Philip Waechter
[HC Carlsen 01/19; TB Carlsen 09/2021]
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Published 2017-03-01 by Groundwood Books

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Cirrina Studios co-founder and managing partner David Lipman will produce the film together with David Womark (Life of Pi), which they are developing as a character-driven live-action film set in New York City. Cirrina Studios is an entertainment finance, development and production company.

[...]Fleming has created delightfully eccentric and warmhearted characters that exist in a close-knit community in lovely, accurately described New York City venues. [...] The convoluted, intricate tale is filled with joy, sweet sadness, and a triumph of spirit. --- Kirkus, starred review Read more...

[...]Fleming handles the climax and resolution of the story with such perfect pacing and humour that only after the fact does the reader realize each character - including the goat - has achieved something tremendously important. [...] Quill & Quire, starred review Read more...

France: Magnard; Italy: Mondadori;

[...] With delicate insight and humor, Fleming cleverly unites people - and goats - from vastly different walks of life in an offbeat celebration of courage and individuality. (starred review)

Starlings Animation, formerly Cirrina Animation, extended their option until April 2020.

Shortlisted for the Premio Strega in Italy.

Selected for the 2018 White Ravens. Read more...

[...] The Goat takes a concept that is easiest told as zany and madcap, but instead wisely presents it as perfectly ordinary. If Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach made a kids' movie (pun intended), this would certainly be their script. -- The National Post Read more...