This book delivers the important message of staying clean by taking baths...through the nonfiction story telling of how animals take baths.  Students are introduced to 15 different animals and learn that for animals, baths can take on many different forms.  The teacher can use the many wonderful vocabulary words found in this book to build onto the lesson:  parasites, climate, wallowing, bacteria, mammal, saliva, volcanic.  The book uses humor and supportive information.  In the back of the book is more information on each of the animals.  The illustrations are colorful and just detailed enough to support the text without becoming  a distraction.