Central Kansas Library System

This attractive, large-format book takes advantage of children's natural abilities as scientists and the availability of bathrooms as accessible laboratories. Each double-page spread explores a question such as why boats float, how soap cleans people, why skin turns red in hot water, why the water gets cold, and how a toilet flushes.

A young boy who thinks baths are dumb, dangerous, and a complete waste of time changes his mind after finally getting into the tub with his toy boat.

Knowing Kate would rather play than bathe, Mother mistakes the word for bath, substituting other words so many times, Kate finally insists on being given a bath.

Two best friends take on the other's opposite characteristics when they spend the night at each other's house.

While the family all looks forward to bath time, Scaredy Bath dreads the piping hot water, loud kids, and gooey soap, but when the family goes away, he feels bored and sad and realizes that being a bathtub is fun--most of the time.

Provides answers to a variety of questions related to baths and cleanliness.

Otis P. Oliver rouses a rabble of neighborhood children to join him in a protest demonstration against baths, but notes from his mother, conveyed by his sisters, lead to a compromise.

Whenever Jule Ann goes outside, a mud puddle finds her and her mother makes her take a bath. Then one day Jule Ann thinks of an ingenious solution.