"The Pet Goat" is a reading exercise from the 1995 children's workbook "Reading Mastery II: Storybook 1" by Siegfried Engelmann and Elaine C. Bruner. It gained attention 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.