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The Goat American Novel

Hilde Festerling

The Goat American Novel

Think Bunnicula the Vampire Rabbit meets Babe the Pig, but it’s all goats. An all-ages barnyard gothic podcast from subversive family storyteller Hilde Festerling.

Parent info: The Goat American Novel is recommended for ages 6-10 and 11 plus. It's a Story led show that should be listened to in order. It's about Comedy and the Supernatural for kids. Launched in 2024, it has 2 seasons.

There are 30 episodes

Episodes
The most recent appears first.

  • Bonus Episode: The Night for Make.Shift Gallery

    8 min Season 2 Episode 28 24 April 2026

    In this very special bonus episode, we bring to life a story written by a young student writer/artist, for the Make.Shift Gallery Kids Art Walk.…

  • Bonus Episode: The Picture of Dorian Cat

    29 min Season 2 Episode 27 18 February 2026

    What happens when a handsome cat meets a portrait of himself which is itself a bit too handsome?…

  • Season 2 Episode 12: The Last Chapter

    58 min Season 2 Episode 26 31 October 2025

    The Final Episode of the Goat American Novel, in which all threads are tied up. We hope.…

  • Bonus! Zipnog: Legend, Trickster, Recipe

    14 min Season 2 Episode 25 24 October 2025

    A little bonus episode while you wait for the final chapter. I tell the absolutely true(!) story of the squirrel who became a legend by trashing our house.... and the Recipe she inspired. Perhaps you will enjoy a little cozy autumnal baking, as we did.…

  • S 2 Episode 11: To Trap a Tiger

    43 min Season 2 Episode 24 11 October 2025

    The Penultimate Episode! In which our little heroes go eye to eye with the tiger!

  • S 2 Episode 10: Free Them All

    48 min Season 2 Episode 23 26 September 2025

    The Ante-penultimate episode of the Goat American Novel, in which we all experience  vicarious liberation through multiple instances and styles of setting-free.…

  • S2 Episode 9: The Cart, The Cage, The Pulley, and The Ramp

    42 min Season 2 Episode 22 11 September 2025

    The Cart, The Cage, The Pulley, and The Ramp, in which Arcturix, Clover the sheep, and the goat herd prepare to take this tiger situation into their own hooves.  And Layla just really needs to focus on this garage sale right now.…

  • S2 Episode 8: The Russian Revolution

    48 min Season 2 Episode 21 7 July 2025

    In which Mama Chichi finds some of her kids, Sawyer loses one of his, the pigs take leave of their senses or perhaps find all their marbles for the first time in their lives, and the farm is visited by a mysterious stranger from Goatko Ono's past...…

  • Season 2 Episode Seven: Clover's Big Night

    42 min Season 2 Episode 20 19 June 2025

    In which Clover the boss sheep shows up, Queen to Queen, we learn about 19th century patent medicine, and there is a gruesome but satisfying resolution to a neighborhood pest problem.

  • S2 Episode Six: I'm Still Not Sure How This Restraining Order Thing Works

    43 min Season 2 Episode 14 3 June 2025

    In which the Sawyer continues his attempts to contain the nanny goats, who continue their attempt to find the bottom of a barrel of cherry brandy,…

  • Live Show and Interview and Knott, a Podcast

    1 hr Season 2 Episode 13 26 May 2025

    Announcing our first Live Podcast Show! at Village Books in Bellingham June 07, pm. A free entertainment for families in the style of an old time Radio play... Reserve your seats here!…

  • Episode 5: Chores for Ghosts

    51 min Season 2 Episode 5 25 April 2025

    In which Grazzo is compelled- by the ghost to ghost hotline- to return to the earthly realm to do some very important farm chores.…

  • S2 Episode 4: You Will Contain the Goats

    46 min Season 2 Episode 4 23 March 2025

    You Will Contain the Goats: In which everyone seems to be on an ill-fated mission, and we see how the kids up in the barn are faring after their battle with the tiger.

  • S2 Episode 3: Why Rams Great Till They Gotta Be Great?

    46 min Season 2 Episode 3 1 March 2025

    In which the Milk and Wool Producing Society Convenes, Layla films the greatest Yousnap video of all time, and the wider world is lured into the drama unfolding in the four farms neighborhood.

  • Bonus Episode: Marie Vinson, The World's Greatest Daredevil

    26 min Season 2 22 February 2025

    In this bonus episode we hear the story of Marie Vinson, a Happy Meal doll who becomes the World's Greatest Daredevil. Regular Episodes of The Goat American Novel will return next week!

  • S2 Episode Two: Eggplant Croquant

    50 min Season 2 Episode 2 8 February 2025

    In which we catch up with the goats in the barn, and also check in at Millicent's house, where some goats may or may not be hidden in a blanket fort, and a man may or may not be screaming.…

  • S2 Episode 1: Take the Dog Out for Her Exorcism

    53 min Season 2 Episode 1 24 January 2025

    We're back! The nanny goats rally around a plan to recover their missing kids by performing an exorcism on the farm dog. But are great love poems really capable of releasing the demon inside the dog?…

  • Episode 12: The Ascendance of Arcturix

    1 hr 15 min Season 1 Episode 12 29 July 2024

    In this Season Finale, the existing high caprine drama collides with the imagination and practical skills of  a little brother on the move.…

  • Episode 11: Everybody Loves Farmer Boy

    46 min Season 1 Episode 11 3 July 2024

    In which some go totally Crackergoat, and some tell our Farmer Boy how they really feel.…

  • Episode 10: There's a Gate In The Floor

    41 min Season 1 Episode 10 14 June 2024

    In which the dangers lurking in the barn begin to reveal themselves. And family dinner gets heated when the new neighbor drops by to borrow some hay.…

  • Episode 9: Smash it, Silver. Smash it Good

    50 min Season 1 Episode 9 31 May 2024

    In which an unlikely trio of young goats find an old, high, cracked window, and they smash  it good. Goatko Ono shares her wisdom, and her wisdom is kinda gross.…

  • Episode 8: Who, Exactly, Has Got The Power?

    45 min Season 1 Episode 8 17 May 2024

    In which a meeting of the Milk and Wool Producing Animals Society collides with a daisy chain, and the yearlings' Demonic Possession theory collides with the awesome force of Squirrel Power. But who, really, has got the power?…

  • Episode 7: Sawyer Does the Chores. With Literature.

    41 min Season 1 Episode 7 22 March 2024

    It's time for Sawyer to do the first round of morning chores. But will he be able to do it without striking terror and/or inciting revolution in the hearts of the animals? How will Zipnog cope with no regular supply of The Brown? And what is Goatina up to?…

  • Episode 6: Tings In Te Barn

    1 hr Season 1 Episode 6 8 March 2024

    In which ouija boards- one regular, one made out of an accursed farm sign- are consulted regarding the supernatural business on the farm. How many ghosts are in this episode? It's not an exact science, but Ruby One Horn is surely here, and at least one haunted…

  • Episode 5: Roars, Thunderbutts, Rattling engines

    41 min Season 1 Episode 5 24 February 2024

    As FM makes her last preparations to drive away and leave Pearl and Sawyer in charge, two of the kids break out in search of apples. Or is it prize-winning pumpkins? Or is it fear itself they'll wind up chasing?…

  • Episode 4: The Corn Brings the Chickens, The Chickens Bring the Noise

    36 min Season 1 Episode 4 9 February 2024

    In which FM reaches out to her neighbors- the familiar and the frightening, the sensible and the strange, for help with her animals while she takes The Seaside Cure. But first, a squirrel.…

  • Episode 3: The Ballad of Ruby One-Horn

    43 min Season 1 Episode 3 26 January 2024

    In which the big sister yearling goats tell the kids a terrifying rural legend about the one-horned goat, and FM receives an unexpected visitor, crossing the borders in dreamland to deliver a message...…

  • Episode 2: The Milk and Wool Producing Animals’ Neighborhood Society

    33 min Season 1 Episode 2 12 January 2024

    In this episode, we meet the whole herd, and their neighbors, and we see the goats try- and mainly succeed- to boss all the other animals around. But do the goats, sheep, alpacas, or their respective humans, yet scent the danger wafting from the 100 year old b…

  • Episode 1: It Was Not Any Barn She Knew

    37 min Season 1 Episode 1 12 January 2024

    The start of our journey, in which we meet the farmer and the four kids of the herd, and we listen in on their conversations, their wild goatly imaginings, their dreams...…

  • Introducing The Goat American Novel

    2 min Season 1 Trailer 8 October 2024

    Introducing the Goat American Novel, a gothic barnyard audio drama by subversive family storyteller Hilde Festerling.

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