Get Out of My Bath! by Britta Teckentrup
Published by Nosy Crow on December 31st 2018
ISBN: 1536202746
Pages: 22
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A board book version of the 2015 book. With her signature collage-style, Teckentrup introduces Ellie the Elephant who is taking a bath. Then in the style of Hervé Tullet, the reader is invited to help Ellie by shaking the book and moving it side-to-side; this is fun until a crocodile ends up in the bath followed by a flamingo, a tiger, and a mouse. Ellie is now too crowded and wants everyone out of her bath, so she sucks up all of the water and the wet, shivering animals shuffle off leaving her alone to enjoy and finish her bath. A strange message as the book starts off playfully and then shifts to dismay. Perhaps Ellie could have shared her bath and had more fun, or she could have asked the other animals to leave, or the reader could have helped shake them out of the bath? A good pre-bath read, but not a must-have.

Reviewed by Jill O’Connor, Merrill Memorial Library, Yarmouth