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Title: King Bidgood's in the Bathtub by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 0-15-242730-9 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: October, 1985 Format: School & Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This will make you laugh!
Comment: When I was in 5th grade, I read King Bidgood's in the Bathtub, and got to hear the tape with it. It was so good, my brother and I would read it constantly. We would even walk to school singing the song (at the top of our lungs, of course!). A great children's book, all in all, with beautiful illustrations. The absurdity of fishing in a tub, going to war in a tub, eating lunch, and even having a royal ball in a bathtub will have you laughing in no time. Get it for the kids in you life, but I bet some adults will like it too!
Rating: 3
Summary: Extraordinary illustrations, so-so text
Comment: I'm a big fan of Don and Audrey Wood (THE NAPPING HOUSE is one of my all-time favorite children's books; I love PIGGIES, too). I'm lukewarm on this one, however. Admittedly, the illustrations are extraordinary. One bathtub scene has the King and his Knight sitting in steamy tub filled with miniature ships and sailors battling through soapsuds and waves. Another scene has the King fishing in the tub with his Duke. The Duke sits hunched over in a mass of cattails and lily pads, furrowing his brow and trying to bait his hook. Trout leap from the tub, ducks and frogs hide in the rushes, and turtles crawl along the tub's edge. You could spend hours looking at the illustrations; you'll notice all sorts of funny details if you do. I've read this book a million times with my toddler, and I only noticed today that the castle-shaped cake in the food scene (where the King feasts in the tub with his Queen) is topped with a miniature bathtub with King Bidgood in it. Unfortunately, the text is rather weak. It's a simple story. A young page announces that King Bidgood won't get out of the bathtub. Various court officials try to get him out, none successfully. Finally, the entire court ends up in the tub at a Masquerade Ball which gets so crazy that the page pulls the plug. This gets the King out of the tub. The problem is the text is a repetitive quasi-poem thing (which the book jacket describes as a "lyric text"), and some of the lines don't really work. What does it mean, for example, to cry out "with a trout, trout, trout"? That's not to say that the text is horrible. It's not. It's quite okay, in fact. But when the illustrations are really extraordinary, a quite okay text feels like a real let-down.
Rating: 5
Summary: Audrey Wood is great
Comment: She did it again with this book. A cute story with good illistrations. The only thing I didn't like was that the book was a little dark. I usually like bright vibrant colors. My children enjoy the book and ask me to read it often.
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Title: The Napping House by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 0152026320 Publisher: Red Wagon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Heckedy Peg by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 0152336796 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: September, 1992 List Price(USD): $7.00 |
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Title: The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and The Big Hungry Bear by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 0859531821 Publisher: Child's Play International, Ltd. Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.99 |
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Title: Piggies by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 015202638X Publisher: Red Wagon Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Elbert's Bad Word by Audrey Wood, Don Wood ISBN: 0152013679 Publisher: Voyager Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $6.00 |
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