Nightgown Countdown was a small picture book about 10 farm animals who are getting ready to go to bed. The book goes through each farm animal one by one who fall out of the dancing line. After each animal goes to bed or gets tired the book counts down all the way to 1 rooster who stays up in order to wake everyone back up in the morning!

My personal response to this book was that is was a great book to help young children learn how to count and count down. Also, the pictures and illustrations were wonderful. I even enjoyed looking at all the farm animals a what they were doing in each picture.

A class room activity I could do after reading this book would be having the children make up there own things to count down from 10 to 1. Also, you could use this book to talk about all the different kinds of farm animals and ask the children which animal is which.

Just as she is getting ready for bed, a farmer notices that ten of her barnyard animals are preparing for an all-night hoedown. Still wearing her nightgown, she sneaks out to watch them as they dance through the night. As the animals lay down one by one, she counts them off in standard countdown fashion. "Ten farm animals dancing in a line, horse got dizzy, then there were nine."