" 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
ongoing terror attacks
September 11 attacks
Siegfried Engelmann