On Katy's birthday, all of her animal friends come to the party dressed in clothes of different colors....

"In this adaptation of a Texas folk song, the illustrations show the story of Katy Bear's birthday party, while the repetitive verses are a catalog of what the guests wore. . . . The pictures pick up color as the guests arrive and the activities get livelier. To further focus attention on color, the words are printed in boxed insets of the appropriate hue. . . . The music-a simple, singable tune-is printed at the end. The subject and the highly predictable pattern of text have appeal for just-beginning readers as well as for preschool listeners and singers."-Language Arts...

A picture book favourite in Spanish and English! '10 in the bed/and the little one said:/"Roll Over./Roll Over."/They all rolled over/and one fell out.'...One verse per page is issustrated with whimsical animals and a little boy. The animals are lively and curl up around the room after falling out of bed...Dreamy pastel illustrations are in blue and gold with clever but not busy detail. A pleasant way to count backwards, good for young groups and for singing at bedtime....