This nonfiction picture book shows the way people all over the world bathe, from Turkish families traveling to public baths to Colombians taking a dip in a mud-filled volcano. Although the techniques are different, the book points out that most baths begin with the mama announcing it's time to get clean and the child refusing and running away -- but that, at the end, most children argue when it's time to get out because they want to stay in. They then splash their mothers in the face with the bath water, and the mother laughs sweetly.
While some children are more reluctant than others to get into the bath, I think it's quite a reach to say this is a thing in the majority of households all over the world. And if it is, I don't think it's setting a sterling example to have page after page of naked children arguing with their mothers and trying to run away because they have to take a bath. (As shown on the cover, a book such as this does include some nudity, although the details are not made clear in the illustrations.)
Pre-K, EL (K-3) -- NOT RECOMMENDED. Reviewed by Sydney G., K-6 Library Media Specialist
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