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Around the World in a Bathtub: Bathing All Over the Globe
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Product Description Explore bathing practices in different countries and cultures in this lively, colorful picture book. From a hammam in Turkey to a maqii on the Alaskan tundra, this book shares the bath-time battle that happens every night around the world. "Yes, yes!" say the grown-ups, "No, no!" say the children, and the chase is on! Bath time may take many forms, but it's a ritual we all share. "Bradford's picture book makes a splash with its lighthearted, global perspective on the ritual of bathing. "No, no!" squeal the children: "Yes, yes," insist the adults in English, Japanese, Hindi, and a sprinkling of other languages. . . .Parents and children will enjoy incorporating the linguistic variations into their own bath-time practices." — Booklist From School Library Journal PreS-Gr 2—While some youngsters take to bath time like fish to water, others struggle with the ritual and need a bit of encouragement and coaxing. This appealing and enlightening nonfiction picture book serves as a resource for universalizing the bath time experience and making connections among different cultures around the world through descriptions of their specific bathing traditions. The work starts with a young boy refusing to get into the tub and proceeds to discuss, through spare, lyrical text, how children from all over the globe sometimes resist bathing. Archer's bold, bright oil paint and collage art depicts each custom with engaging detail. For each spread, there is also a translation of how to say "no, no" and "yes, yes" in the corresponding language, which will make for a fun, educational read-aloud experience. A list of people who shared their expertise is included in the acknowledgements, which points to careful research, and a "Bathing Around the Globe" section at the end provides a bit more content about each bathing tradition and may spark conversation and inspire readers to seek out more material. VERDICT This geography book with a twist will be useful for read-alouds and for home use.—Rita Meade, Brooklyn Public Library Review Bradford's picture book makes a splash with its lighthearted, global perspective on the ritual of bathing. "No, no!" squeal the children: "Yes, yes," insist the adults in English, Japanese, Hindi, and a sprinkling of other languages. In some homes, it's not uncommon for nightly ablutions to begin with mama chasing her little one around the house, and end with a happy splash. In some parts of the world, there is a more collective ritual. In Japan, family members bathe in order of age in a large square tub called an oforu. In India, bathing in the Ganges River is an act of honoring ancestors. Turkish baths include scrubbing and mud masks, while in Alaska, a Yup'ik family gathers in a maqii to enjoy (or not) a steam sauna heated by fire and stones. The illustrations are vivid, textured, and energetic, and affectionately reminiscent of Ezra Jack Keats' The Snowy Day (1962). Parents and children will enjoy incorporating the linguistic variations into their own bath-time practices. — Booklist Is it a universal truth that kids don't like baths? Maybe yes, maybe no. Children's may not like the bathing experience at first, but they often don't want it to end. By home bathtubs, communal baths, lakes, rivers, and even a mud volcano, cajoling adults say, "Yes, yes," while unwilling children shoud, "No, no!" These words, in many languages (in English transliteration) and their phonetic pronunciations (n a smaller font), are woven into the illustrations (and so are not always easily read). Exuberant illustrations, emphasizing aqueous blues and greens, are executed in oils with collage elements and finished in Photoshop. The unclothed young children and more modestly covered adults have different skin and hair colors, but the book starts in an unnamed country (the US?) with a loving, brown-skinned mom summoning her reluctant child to an old-fashioned bathtub. The same adorable boy doesn't want to leave the
