No Bath Tonight

by Jane Yolen

Book Overview

A small boy refuses to take a bath until his grandmother shows him how to make kid tea. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069003881X
• ISBN13: 9780690038811
• Release Date: January 1978
• Publisher: Crowell
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Age Range: 5 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

a favorite since my own kids were little

I love this book! It was a favorite at our house back when my own children were little, and now my eldest and I read it to her son, my grandson, and it's just as wonderful as it was 25 years ago. The child's adventures of the week get him dirtier and dirtier, while one mis-adventure after another prevents the nightly bath from occurring. Finally Grandma arrives on the weekend and shows her grandson how to make "kid tea" in the bathtub, and then she reads the tea leaves to tell both past and future. Like so much of Jane Yolen's writing, this is one of those read again and again books. A classic.

No Bath Tonight

I love this book enough to search for a copy for my new grandson. I read it many times to my son, now 21, and we loved the way this book subtly acknowledges that kids don't always want to submit to to usual adult rules of hygiene. However, coaxed by a loving and knowing grandmother, and following a series of enjoyable activities she and her grandson share while delaying, the bath is eventually taken and its enormity defused.

darling, witty book!

this book - picked up by my mother at a library giveaway sale - has been a huge hit with my 5 yr old. the theme - no bath tonight - really hits home with her - the prose is extremely witty and the pictures are just precious. we highly recommend this wonderful book at our house!