Yeah, those are some righteous goats! 
Hilarious. I need to get this book. That would have been right up my alley when I was a kid and I bet my kids would love it.
I still have my copy of this book that I got when I was a kid. I still remember seeing it in the shop and buying it. I would pore over it for hours.
My two favorites when I was little were Old McDonald Had an Apartment House by Judi Barrett and The Sailor Dog, which is a Golden Book. I don’t have my copies of those from when I was a kid (my nephews have my Old McDonald book), but I bought copies for my kids.
I recently found a few of my childhood picture books at my parents’ house. They’re in bad shape, but they bring back vivid memories.
Did anybody have The Ice-Cream Cone Coot and Other Rare Birds?
*All the birds inside this book are very strange and rare,
and if you travel to the zoo you will not find them there.
Don’t look for them in nature books, in parks or pet shop cages,
The Drippet, Piffle and the rest live only on these pages.
*
Or The Marvelous Catch of Old Hannibal? About a fisherman’s tall tale.
“That’s a grand catch, Old Hannibal, a marvelous catch, the best I ever did see!”
My wife has a copy of this. Those pictures are quite distinctive… some I would almost say border on the grotesque in a sort of “uncanny valley” way.
Also I would like to third (or whatever) The Poky Little Puppy. Another Golden Book I remember fondly is Scuffy the Tugboat. I’ve seen different versions of that book over the years.
Just thought of another one. The Witch’s Catalog. It wasn’t really a story, but a fake catalog of magical products you could buy. I think it’s the kind of thing that gets a kid’s imagination going.
For example, there was a “magic jumper”* that let you jump really high. A weather balloon that actually changes the weather underneath it. And a doorway that you could walk through and be instantly clean without taking a bath. And then there was the genie in a bottle, but I always wondered why someone wouldn’t just buy the genie and then with for all the other stuff in the catalog. 
I believe it was from the 1970s, and the illustrations were simple but well-done.
*Meaning “jumper” in the American sense, of a pinafore-like dress, not the British “jumper” or sweater.
I loved this when I was a kid. It felt kind of weird to read it to my little kids, with all the horrific attempted executions, but it never bothered them. There are some complaints that it’s racist, though, for making all of the Chinese people look alike.
The Big Orange Splotch- By Daniel Pinkwater
A marvellous book on non conformity and following your heart.
Oh, we love the Big Orange Splot here! Also Tooth-Gnasher Superflash, another Pinkwater picture-book classic.
My favorite when I was a kid was The Elephant Who Liked to Smash Small Cars, by Jean Merrill. It was all about this elephant who liked to smash small cars, and when a small car drove along his road, he would merrily smash it, singing his car-smashing song. Then a man opened a small-car dealership on the elephant’s street, and the elephant had a wonderful time. The man decided to sell big cars instead, and smashed the elephant until he promised never to smash a small car again.
Anything by Richard Scarry. Loved his artwork.
Boswell’s Life of Boswell, by Evelyn Leavens (1958, Simon & Schuster). The whole perfect 25 page book is available in the link.
OMG..I LOVED the Serendipity books too. Every time we had one of those stupid paper things come around or a book fair at school, I’d try to buy as many of the ones that were offered as I could. I thought the illustrations were so beautiful.
Courtesy of my MIL, Slim has a copy of “The Napping House” on his book shelf. She used to be a Reading Recovery (I think that’s like tutoring? IDK) teacher for an elementary school, so every year for birthdays and Christmas or whatever she gets him at least one book. This year he got “Heaven is For Real FOR KIDS!” (which I thought was kinda meh..the sparkly unicorn was cute though LOL) and “Wherever You Are, My Love Will Find You” which has beautiful illustrations but I can’t read it without bawling my eyes out.
GuanoLad–We checked out “In the Night Kitchen” the other day. Slim thought it was hilarious to see a naked child butt on one of the pages. 
Dav Pilkey’s “Dragon” books.
My favorite is “A Friend for Dragon.”
“Dragon’s Fat Cat” is also great.