Splish, Splash! (My First I Can Read Series)

by Sarah Weeks, Ashley Wolff (Illustrator)

Overview

Rub-a-dub-dub! Chub the fish loves to scrub in his tub. One day his friends come to call. They want to splish and splash too. Can a tub so small hold them all?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780064442824
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	04/28/2000
Series:	My First I Can Read Series
Edition description:	1ST HARPER
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.12(d)
Age Range:	3 - 6 Years

About the Author

Sarah Weeks is an author, singer, and songwriter. Her many books for young readers include the My First I Can Read Book Splish, Splash!, illustrated by Ashley Wolff, and the I Can Read Books Mac and Cheese, Baa-Choo!, Pip Squeak, and Drip, Drop, all illustrated by Jane Manning. She lives in upstate New York.

Ashley Wolff is the award-winning illustrator of many children's books, including Little Donkey Close Your Eyes by Margaret Wise Brown; Home Sweet Home by Jean Marzollo; Splish, Splash by Sarah Weeks; and Some Things Go Together by Charlotte Zolotow. Ms. Wolff lives with her family in San Francisco, California.

Editorial Reviews

Chub the fish loves to swim in his tub, but when he decides to take a bath, a host of other creatures ask to join him. First it is a mama cat and her two kitten, and then their pal the pony. They all bring toys and "they splish and they splash" and so it goes until the tub is quite full. A little bug is the last to ask to join in, and all but Chub say there is no room. When Chub threatens to pull the plug, they suddenly find room for the bug and now they all can splish and splash. Lots of rhyming words and good humor to encourage emergent readers. "My First I Can Read Book"

Children's Literature - Marilyn Courtot

PreS-Gr 1--A tale of a fish named Chub and his wonderful big tub told in rhyme with colorful illustrations. Who would have thought that a bath could hold a fish, a cat, a bull, a snail, a giraffe, a snake--and more? But in they all go, with a tiny bug the last one to find a spot. Repeated throughout is the refrain, "And they splish/and they splash,/and they splash/and they splish." The silly illustrations show all the familiar tub-time accessories children love from rubber duckies to bubbles galore. A cat in a shower cap and a snake in an inflatable tube are just some of the amusing characters squeezing into this communal tub. The words are all simple and familiar, and the story is engaging, making it a good choice for beginning readers.--Dina Sherman, Brooklyn Children's Museum, NY

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