Three cool kids Book

The Cool Kids is another adaptation of Three Billy Goats Gruff. This version takes place in a city, on a lot, where three cool kids (goats): Big, Middle, and Little live. The grass and weeds in their lot were becoming thin and there was some noisy construction taking place so they sought to move to a vacant lot which was located across the street and down the block. Rather then crossing a bridge they cross a sewer grate and rather than encountering a goat they encounter a rat. The rat threatens to eat each goat as they pass and each goat tells the rat that the next sibling is going to tell him "what's what." Eventually it is Big's turn to cross, he encounters the rat. Big charges the grate with his horns and stomps it with his hooves causing the rat to fall back down into the sewer. The goats make it across the street where the grass was certainly sweeter. I like the up to date location of the story and the fact that the illustrations were done with torn paper. I did not like the premise of a rat eating a goat, it is very implausible.