I love the bright, vivid, folk-art illustrations, but the story falls flat.  It basically takes a whole lot of words to tell the reader that this guy had a bunch of troublesome goats that his wives wanted him to get rid of, but his kids wanted him to keep, and he took them to market to sell them, but kids kept whining, moms gave in, and when he returned he ended up with even more goats.  It tells us he was surprised to discover the extra goats, without ever telling us where they came from, and there’s not enough plot or character development for the reader to care about the goats.  Too many words to not really tell us much.