"The Pet Goat" is a children's story from the 1995 book Reading Mastery II: Storybook 1 by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It grew responsiveness on September 11, 2001; U.S. President George W. Bush was reading the story at the Emma E. Booker School in Sarasota, Florida, when he was informed of the ongoing terror attacks.