Animal Baths
-
- $11.99
-
- $11.99
Publisher Description
Discover how all kinds of animals bathe in this playful exploration of bath time in the animal kingdom! Learn how tiny shrimp aid eels in keeping their teeth squeaky clean, and how schools of fish help sharks stay spic and span. Young readers will recognize their own bath time habits, and will love splashing and playing along in their own imaginative way. Simple rhyming text and vibrant, colorful collages by award-winning author and artist Bob Barner make this book ideal for the youngest readers and bathers!
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
"Animals like to get clean/ just like you and me," concludes Barner's survey of critter hygiene. "When you take a bath today,/ which one will you be?" With prompting from genial, generously scaled collages, readers can let their bathtub imaginations run wild, imagining that they're eels that "clean pointy teeth/ with some help from tiny shrimp" or monkeys who "groom messy hair/ to start the monkey day." Subtly dimensional and textural, with just the right amount of fancifulness and anthropomorphism (smiles beam off every spread, and a bear cub shoots readers a wink), the cut-paper collages bring to mind portraits of favorite plush toys. While most of the images are tableau-style, others exhibit a surprising suppleness, capturing how a duck turns its head to "wash, preen, and primp" its feathers or how an elephant's trunk functions as a handheld shower. Barner (Bears! Bears! Bears!) is as skillful with rhymes as he is with materials, offering verses that exude a love of mouth-satisfying sounds: "Bats keep wings soft and neat/ with lots of little licks./ Bears scratch against tall trees/ to rub off mud and ticks." Ages 4 8.
