The Goat and Her Three Kids

The Goat and Her Three Kids

The Goat and Her Three Kids (Romanian: “Capra cu trei iezi”) is

an 1875 short story, fable and fairy tale by Romanian author Ion Creangă. Figuratively illustrating for the notions of motherly love and childish disobedience, it recounts how a family of goats is ravaged by the Big Bad Wolf, allowed inside the secured home by the oldest, most ill-behaved and

least prudent of the kids. The only one of the children to survive is the youngest and most

obedient, who then helps his mother plan her revenge on the predator, leading to an end in which the wolf is tricked, burned alive and stoned to death.