Museum ABCs: Goats in the Museum!?!

There are a lot of farm animals roaming the Bennington Museum in different works of art.

Are the goats in a painting? In a photograph? Or even on a wall? They might be Billy Goats Gruff! We will find them, listen to  stories about them, and make a goat friend to take home to add to your animal collections. (Image: Altered image of Jill Van Orden, Goat, paper maché and wood.)

Goats in the Museum? Check out these books at Bennington Free Library:

*Beatrice’s Goat by Page McBrier (PB-MCB)

*Giddy Goat by Jamie Rix (PB-RIX)

*Gregory the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Sharmat (PB-SHA)

*Polly & her Duck Costume by Leanne Lauricella (PB-LAU)

*The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Paul Galdone (PB-GAL)

*The Three Billy Goats Gruff by Jerry Pinkney (PB-PIN)

*The Three Billy Goats Gruff retold by Irene Yates (ER-YAT)

*The Trees of the Dancing Goats by Patricia Polacco (K-3 POL)

*Unicorn Thinks He’s Pretty Great by Bob Shea (PB-SHE)

The Museum ABCs program is a collaboration between Bennington Museum and the Bennington Free Library. The program is intended for children ages 3 to 5 (siblings welcome) and their adult companions and supports early literacy and a lifelong love of museums and learning. Museum ABCs is offered at no charge to participants, thanks to generous support from the A.D. Henderson Foundation, Stewart’s Shops and The Bank of Bennington,