About this book

Robert Munsch's hilarious take on bathtime is a long overdue tribute to the kids who dread taking them—and the poor parents who dread giving them!

Adam is covered in dirt. His hands are dirty. His face is dirty. And his feet are dirty.

"Adam, you need a bath!" his father yells.

But Adam doesn't like baths. All that soap in his eyes, soap in his ears, and soap in his mouth! He doesn't like them one bit.

So while his little sister, his dog, and his cat are laughing, Adam's father outsmartshim and pops him in the tub.

Little does Dad know that Adam has a few tricks of his own...and once he's in the tub, in control of the tap AND the plug, the mayhem will begin!

Behind the scenes

In February of 1988, Robert Munsch was at the Toronto Storytelling Festival and made up a story for a kid named Alice who did not like to take baths. Eighteen years later he visited a friend who liked to have bonfires, and they had such a huge fire that night that the fire department came and put it out. Munsch looked at the huge pile of smoking ashes and thought, “If Alice had fallen in that pile, it would explain why she needed a bath.” Unfortunately, he had not kept track of Alice, so he wrote the bath story for two of the kids tending the fire. That is how Adam and Janna got in the story: the book is set in their backyard.

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