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What a Mess!
There is mud
from the rug
all the way
to the tub.
Oh, what a mess!
Who did it?
Someone is tracking muddy footprints through the house. Is it little Ben? (No, he's just scribbling on the walls.) Is it Sarah? (No, she's playing dress-up with clothes scattered eveywhere.) Kid after kid says, "Not me!" -- until we finally track the culprit all the way to the bathtub. The surprise ending is the icing on the cake in this fun beginning reader.
from the rug
all the way
to the tub.
Oh, what a mess!
Who did it?
Someone is tracking muddy footprints through the house. Is it little Ben? (No, he's just scribbling on the walls.) Is it Sarah? (No, she's playing dress-up with clothes scattered eveywhere.) Kid after kid says, "Not me!" -- until we finally track the culprit all the way to the bathtub. The surprise ending is the icing on the cake in this fun beginning reader.
- GenresPicture BooksChildrens
32 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2001
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December 15, 2011
This is a great early reader book!
The reader walks through each room in the house, tracking a messy mud problem. In each room there's also a messy kid causing some other kind of mess. If your child finds humor in messes and notices these details, they'll enjoy the book all that much more. ;)
In the end, it ends up being Dad that made the big mud mess all over the house (and leaving each of the kids entirely unsupervised and making messes while he's in the bath!). My son & I both found that to be quite amusing.
This book uses very simple words but is still interesting and has a plot. The main phrase is repeated again in every room.
The day after we got this from the library, my son read this book by himself aside from the names of the kids!
The reader walks through each room in the house, tracking a messy mud problem. In each room there's also a messy kid causing some other kind of mess. If your child finds humor in messes and notices these details, they'll enjoy the book all that much more. ;)
In the end, it ends up being Dad that made the big mud mess all over the house (and leaving each of the kids entirely unsupervised and making messes while he's in the bath!). My son & I both found that to be quite amusing.
This book uses very simple words but is still interesting and has a plot. The main phrase is repeated again in every room.
The day after we got this from the library, my son read this book by himself aside from the names of the kids!
May 26, 2010
This is a fabulous book. I love the rhyming and my kids really enjoyed the plot. Every page is filled with another child (who is currently in the middle of creating another mess) of course the mud is the worst mess of all and the culprit explains why all the kids have been allowed to make their messes along the way. Very cute story. The pictures were really enjoyable as well.
October 7, 2014
Innocent, reality of family life.. would like the follow-up on this one on how mom and family actually handle it!
February 26, 2014
2013.4.24 300words
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