Time to Get Out of the Bath, Shirley

Burningham does it again! This is a great book about Shirley's adventures in the bathtub while her mother is preoccupied with household chores. These books are extremely likeable for young students, and I think it would be fun to even use this format as a mentor text. It would be challenging but I think really fun.

The main character, Shirley, is taking a bath. Her mother is trying to get her attention, but Shirley's thoughts are elsewhere. Each page has a picture depicting Shirley and her mother's bath time routine. The opposite page depicts what adventure Shirley is imagining. Her mother complains of things, such as, water and clothes on the floor while Shirley imagines herself riding her rubber duck through the drain of the bathtub and through the pipes into a scene of forests, knights, rivers and what appears to be medieval times.

In my opinion, this book would be ideal for pre-K through 1st grade students. Children at that age could relate to Shirley's bath time routine and her extensive imagination.

A double story: alternating pages show the perspective of Shirley's mom and the exciting adventures in Shirley's head as she bathes. Shirley's section is a wordless book, which could make this a great interactive read-aloud.

This was a cute book about a girl named Shirley who was taking a bath, and imagining herself in an adventurous land while her mother was telling her to get out of the bath tub and everything she was doing wrong. Something I would do after I read the book to the class would be ask the kids what they imagine themselves doing while they are taking a bath.

this little girl refuses to get out the bath tub because she is having far too much fun in her own imagined world. this a great bedtime story to read to young ones to make them take their baths and such.

About a girl who has adventures in the bathtub. This is a very simple book. She refuses to get out of the bathtub untill the end of her adventure.