GOOSEBERRY was named for the color of her eyes. She was a playful stray kitten who grew up to be a good gray cat. Now she has kittens of her own to play with . . . Good Old Little Red Hen is too old to lay eggs, but she loves to sit on other hens' eggs. . . . After Ibn Rafferty had been brushed and combed and curried--and looks clean and beautiful--he rolls in the mud. It is very funny to see a horse rolling. . . ."" The Provensens' paintings--sometimes one, sometimes twelve to a page--lend their facile appeal to some 60 pages of such separate, widely spaced sentences naming and describing the animals who ""bring joy, laughter, and life to the lives of the people who live in a house that needs painting, at the end of a road full of holes . . . MAPLE HILL FARM."" And that's all. Like the farmer's products, it's supermarket fare.