Pretend You're a Cat is a 1974 American children's book by Jean Marzollo and illustrator Jerry Pinkney.

Booklist, in a review of Pretend You're a Cat, wrote "Challenging preschoolers to imitate pigs, cows, birds, and other animals, this upbeat picture book will appeal to their imagination and sense of fun.

Simple in concept and inviting in design, this book will be a popular choice for story hours.

"[1] and the School Library Journal "With minimal coaching, these delightful, simple rhymes will be easily learned, recited, and acted out.

"[1] Publishers Weekly called it a "clever concept book" and wrote "The rhymed verses are vivid and straightforward, and Pinkney's inventive watercolor and pencil drawings and quite differently of Marcia Sewall's black and white drawings are as engaging as the characters and animals he portrays.