Bubbles, Bubbles

Your 2-year-old approaches daily experiences, such as bath time, with playful exuberance.

Tips for reading and sharing:

Memorize the story and recite it to your toddler while he or she is taking a bath

Help your child build things out of bubbles

Blow bubbles while your child is bathing to enhance the fun of the experience Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

PreS-In this exuberant book, an appealing, dirty-faced, grime-covered toddler has a bath and a shampoo. The rhymed text ("Bubbles, bubbles in the tubbles,/splishy, splashy, splooshy scrubbles") makes good use of sounds that describe the process of getting clean. Simple, realistic pictures with cheerful gold backgrounds reflect the child's actions as she bathes with her green toy frog and yellow duck. Finally, she is ready for bed in her flannel pajamas. Very young children will enjoy this familiar bedtime romp.-Janet M. Bair, Trumbull Library, CT Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Ages 2-5. "Dirty fingers, dirty toes, / dirty shoulders, dirty nose. / All my dirty deeds are done. / Time to have some bubble fun." So begins this lively, rhyming picture book, part of the Harper Growing Tree series. A young child covered with dirt ends her day with a freshly drawn bubble bath. Kosaka's warm illustrations celebrate the routine as the little girl throws off her clothes, grabs favorite toys, jumps into the water, wraps up in a towel, then dances about in her birthday suit. This concise, colorful book marries text and pictures to show how a time-honored bedtime activity prepares a child to accept the end of the day. --Kathy Broderick From: Syndetics Solutions, Inc. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.