Found a very cute picture book, and just couldn't resist building a storytime around it.
Bears in the Bath
Shirley Parenteau, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9780763664183
Pastel colored baby bears all have great fun in their various activities, getting quite messy in their individually rhyming ways, until Big Brown Bear (identified as a he in the book, but easily adaptable) drags them all squirming back to the tub to clean off, with Big Brown Bear getting equally messy as a result, and needing a bath as well.
Time for a Bath
Phillis Gershator, illustrated by David Walker
ISBN: 9781454910329
Yeah I know, I try not to have duplicate illustrators or authors, but every once in a while it just seems inevitable. Once again in pastels, but this time at least pastels in greys and creams, with a baby bunny who gets oh so dirty, no matter what he and mommy bunny do. What else is there to do but take a nice bath after every activity? Short, sweet, and rhyming.
The Pigeon Needs a Bath!
Mo Willems
ISBN: 9781423190875
I do love Mo Willems, but I tend to try and avoid his books for storytime, because I feel like he's one of the few modern picture book writers who end up being known well enough that kids will come across either Pigeon, Elephant and Piggie, or Knuffle Bunny all on their own, and I can use my platform to show off lesser-known but equally excellent books. Still, when you have a perfect fit, you have a perfect fit, and the Pigeon definitely fits. He is QUITE dirty, and determined not to take a bath, for various excellent toddler-style reasons. Of course he changes his mind in the end, but the persuading is most of the fun.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Storytime Potentials: The Pigeon Needs a Bath, Caterina and the Perfect Party
So we got even more picture books in today!
Here we go:
The Pigeon Needs a Bath ("I Do Not" says the Pigeon on the cover)
Mo Willems
ISBN: 9781423190875
The Pigeon, Mo Willems.
Not as amazing as Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and The Duckling Gets a Cookie? but still funny. Pigeon is now totally filthy, and needs a bath. Well, that's what YOU think. The Pigeon thinks that you are full of it, and he's just fine thankyouverymuch. Unless of course he really does need a bath - OK FINE! But then the bath is too hot, too cold, too lukewarm, too full, too empty, too hot, too cold, too reflective, too wet, too empty, too many toys... (this was a lovely page) until he finally takes the plunge, and then TEN HOURS LATER we find him happily still lounging in the tub. I don't even have kids and I know this is truth in publishing.
Caterina and the Perfect Party
Erin Eitter Kono
ISBN: 9780803739024
Adorable owl in cat-eye glasses. Seriously too cute for words.
This is a book for the young Pinterest-obsessed craftschild. Caterina has lists of everything, and she needs everything to be just perfect, especially her very first party ever - she's inviting all of her friends, you see, so it has to be perfect.
Caterina weathers some crafting mishaps like a pro along the way - the invites get a little drowned in red paint, the decorations might have gotten stepped on, and the food prep was a bit more intensive than she realized, but everything is still great for the party - except that it was an outdoor party, and it rains. Caterina is despondent at the failure of her debut, until all of her friends show up anyway, and prove that a great party is in the people, not the preparations.
Did I mention that Caterina is an adorable owl with cat-eye glasses? Did I? Because it's important.
Here we go:
The Pigeon Needs a Bath ("I Do Not" says the Pigeon on the cover)
Mo Willems
ISBN: 9781423190875
The Pigeon, Mo Willems.
Not as amazing as Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and The Duckling Gets a Cookie? but still funny. Pigeon is now totally filthy, and needs a bath. Well, that's what YOU think. The Pigeon thinks that you are full of it, and he's just fine thankyouverymuch. Unless of course he really does need a bath - OK FINE! But then the bath is too hot, too cold, too lukewarm, too full, too empty, too hot, too cold, too reflective, too wet, too empty, too many toys... (this was a lovely page) until he finally takes the plunge, and then TEN HOURS LATER we find him happily still lounging in the tub. I don't even have kids and I know this is truth in publishing.
Caterina and the Perfect Party
Erin Eitter Kono
ISBN: 9780803739024
Adorable owl in cat-eye glasses. Seriously too cute for words.
This is a book for the young Pinterest-obsessed craftschild. Caterina has lists of everything, and she needs everything to be just perfect, especially her very first party ever - she's inviting all of her friends, you see, so it has to be perfect.
Caterina weathers some crafting mishaps like a pro along the way - the invites get a little drowned in red paint, the decorations might have gotten stepped on, and the food prep was a bit more intensive than she realized, but everything is still great for the party - except that it was an outdoor party, and it rains. Caterina is despondent at the failure of her debut, until all of her friends show up anyway, and prove that a great party is in the people, not the preparations.
Did I mention that Caterina is an adorable owl with cat-eye glasses? Did I? Because it's important.
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