Izzy is a cheerful little goat who grows up before the reader's eyes. She finds a home, experiences her first raisin, and encounters poisonous snakes in her little world. She gives birth to her first kid, endures the deaths of friends, and comes to realise that her simple life is meaningful. A natural history section about goats includes the description of different breeds and caprine characteristics, goat folklore and comments about the role of goats in literature, and information on aspects of goat-keeping such as feeding, health, housing, and routine care.

 

There are 136 pages in this book. This is a short story book. This book was published 2006 by Bright Sky Press .

Mary Dodson Wade is a retired educator and librarian and the author of more than fifty books, including Christopher Columbus, Cinco De Mayo, I Am Houston, I'm Going to Texas, Lou Gehrig's Disease, and Tsunami: Monster Waves. Don Collins is a freelance illustrator and is the author of Traces of Forgotten Places and the illustrator of Goat Tails: The Izzy Journals. TACY ELLIS is a high school agricultural, English, drama and speech teacher. She is a lifelong farmer, rancher, and goat raiser and lives with her family in Woodson, Texas.