The seventh day of Chrstmas

On the seventh day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...

Books for the bath!

When looking for a good book, one does not always consider the degree of water repellency to be an important factor, unless you are shopping for either a) a drooling, teething, baby who puts everything in his/her mouth, or b) a child who enjoys a good read in the tub.  If you are shopping for either, here are a few good waterproof book recommendations!

The first is a series of books called Indestructibles.

These books seem to be made of the same material that fed-ex letter bags come in: tear-proof, waterproof, and papercut-proof!  Babies can chew on them, wrinkle up the pages, throw them out of the stroller, into the road, and under cars, parents can wash them in the sink- and they hold up beautifully.  More importantly (of course) they are actually good books!  The two that we have, Hey Diddle Diddle, and Frere Jacques both illustrated by Jonas Sickler, feature fun, updated illustrations to classic children's rhymes.  Hey Diddle Diddle is set in New Orleans, and Frere Jacques is set in a magical candyland-like Paris.  Yum.

 

Sometimes more traditional bath books (the puffy, sponge-between-two-pieces-of-shower-curtain  kind) can be a little lame, probably because they are only a few pages long, and unless we are talking about fine poetry, it's hard to tell a good story in four or five pages.  Here are a few that we actually enjoy reading (every single night!) and that one-year-olds also find hilarious.

Silly Shark by Charles Stafford is a current hit in the tub- each spread has one real shark (Nurse Shark), and one silly shark (Purse Shark) and by looking at the pictures it's hard to tell which one is the real one and which is the funny made-up one.  My only complaint about this book is that they sort of rhyme the word "saw" with "door" but as noted earlier, we are not really talking about fine poetry here.

I Love My Octopus by Anne Wilkinson is another fun book- the words describing the octopus on each page ("twirly whirly arms") lend themselves to lots of splashing and dancing in the tub, and there are fun surprises as well- pages that squeak and squirt water.  

One other thing, book lovers... while researching books to read in the tub I found this product:

on the internet.  Amazing!