How to Give Your Cat a Bath
  • Published: 14 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781774883631
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $16.99

How to Give Your Cat a Bath

in Five Easy Steps

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Paperback
14 Nov 2023
Hardback
22 Jan 2019
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In this hilarious and clever "how-to" picture book, a little girl and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to take a bath. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Snappsy the Alligator and Interrupting Chicken.

In this hilarious and clever "how-to" picture book, a little girl and a know-it-all narrator are thwarted by a cat who refuses to take a bath. The perfect read-aloud for fans of Snappsy the Alligator and Interrupting Chicken.

Step one: fill the bath
Step two: put the cat in the bath
Step three: put shampoo on the cat
Step four: rinse the cat
Step five: dry the cat

Seems simple, right? One problem: the cat has no intention of doing ANY of these things! Watch as the steps keep changing, the cat keeps escaping, the girl keeps eating cookies and the mess keeps escalating. Soon it's not just the cat who needs a bath — it's the whole house!

This spoof on an instruction manual features an increasingly bewildered human, a nonchalant cat and a know-it-all narrator . . . who really doesn't know it all. How DO you give a cat a bath? Read on to find out!
  • Published: 14 November 2023
  • ISBN: 9781774883631
  • Imprint: Tundra Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 36
  • RRP: $16.99
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Praise for How to Give Your Cat a Bath

PRAISE AND ACCOLADES FOR How to Give Your Cat a Bath in Five Easy Steps:

  • Featured in School Library Journal's top 2019 "Funny Picture Books" list
  • One of CCBC's Best Books for Kids & Teens 2019
  • One of the Ontario Library Association’s 2019 Top Ten Titles

"Martz's expressive art lays out the runaway circumstances through vignettelike passages and dialogue balloons, capturing the experience of well-laid plans quickly unraveling into disaster." —Publishers Weekly

"Adorably frustrating . . . will have young readers slapping their foreheads in exasperation, but will reward them with a sweet, funny ending . . . Martz's colourful line drawings match the happy, manic energy." —New York Times