To the Tub - Hardcover

Anderson, Peggy Perry

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395776147 ISBN 13: 9780395776148

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1996

Synopsis

Joe, a stubborn young frog, refuses to take a bath and comes up with all kinds of delay tactics, asking Father to collect all his favorite toys and join him in playing in the mud.

About this title

About the Author:

Peggy Perry Anderson is a full-time elementary school art teacher and mother of three living with her husband in Owasso, Oklahoma.

From Publishers Weekly:

A frog father tries to get his son Joe to take a bath, but Joe proves to be a master of stalling, leading his father on a chaotic romp through the backyard. Joe's demands to find just one more tub toy are called off when dad and son spot a seductive mud puddle and gleefully jump in, putting them both in need of a scrub (and proving that most dads are really messy kids at heart, although apparently the mom, who appears at the door in a prim apron, is not). Anderson (Time for Bed, the Babysitter Said) has a distinct flair for slapstick?in a variation of the old banana-peel gag, for example, Dad is precariously balancing an armload of toys when he trips on a beachball. The text, however, poses a problem with its ambivalent cadence: it slides in and out of verse indiscriminately, and those who read the book aloud may find themselves struggling to find the right meter. Ages 3-7.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0395776147
• ISBN 13: 9780395776148
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 32