The Nanny Goat's Kid

Title

The Nanny Goat's Kid

Author

Jeanne Willis

Type

Juvenile Literature

Call Number

J P WIL

ISBN

9781849390361

There was once a Nanny Goat who wanted kids more than anything in the world, but she couldn’t have any of her own. Adopting seems like the perfect solution, but the kid she adopts is different from the others – in fact, he’s a tiger cub!

Review

A touching book that centres around the sensitive topic of adoption’s effect on family relationships, The Nanny Goat’s Kid shows how parental love transcends skin colour and type and how different creatures can come together to become a family—even if the adopted kid is a tiger and the parents are goats.

Written in a brilliantly humourous manner, Jeanne Willis manages to capture the nuances and emotions felt by the mother and relatives of the adopted kid and rounds it off with a heart-warming ending that goes to show that parent-child love, even if not related by blood and genes, are unconditional and perennial.

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Recommended by Chen Wanying, NLB librarian