I'm a chicken you can trust, so you can believe me when I recommend this children's picture book to all hens and their people. The acrylic paintings are very chickeny, full of watery color, and in your face good, especially the ones of me. I'll tell you about my best, human-friend, Jillian, and my chicken family's Hatch Day party and that sometimes everybody has fun except the Birthday Bird That was me because I thought I was going to starve to death. Oh yes, I had a little cake, but I just pecked a tiny piece of that stuff so I wouldn't hurt Jillian's feelings, and the situation definitely got worse and worse and I got hungrier and hungrier but I didn't die.

This is the first of two stories about Kathy, fully illustrated in color by the author. Kathy explains to us her true and deep understanding of something her mother does not know; how the real world works. Kathy reasons out an explanation for the shenanigans going on at her house which is; mothers all over the neighborhood invite creatures into their homes, her mother being no exception, and those creatures are responsible for removing most all of the frosting from Dad's big birthday cake, NOT KATHY.

Families are wonderful and Grandma's energy shakes up her household like a toad shakes up a mouth full of moth but Grandpa is never shaken until he discovers banana peels falling from the sky.