This is meant to be used as a beginning reader as well as a picture-story book. The bright flat-color pictures start as double spreads, gradually relinquishing space as the number of lines in the verses grow. There is clean color printing in yellow, blue, and dull pink, overbalanced in its lightness by the black typeface when it appears in several lines on a page. Again an oblong format sets up a processional movement to match that of the text.

Peter Beilenson, Paul McPharlin, Ernst Reichl (Jurors)