Splish Splash, Baby Bundt: A Recipe For Bath Time Written and Illustrated by Jamie Harper

Harper, Jamie. Splish Splash, Baby Bundt: A Recipe For Bath Time. Cambridge, Mass.: Candlewick Press, 2007. Print. 24 pages
Age Group:	2 to 4 years
Book Format:	Board Book
Annotation:	Bath time is more fun with Baby Bundt and this recipe
Personal Reaction:	A charming books set up like a cookbook with a recipe for a child’s bath. In water colors & ink, Harper details bath time for a young toddler who is aided and joined in the bath by a slightly older sibling. Simple sentences mimic the format of a recipe are easy for a young child to follow but also move the plot along.
Keywords/Tags:	Bath Time, Parody, Siblings, Babies
Early Literacy Skills Enhancements:	Vocabulary Skills ~Promote literacy and the love of language ~Develop and increase emergent literacy skills and vocabulary Print Motivation ~Increase interest in and enjoyment of books Visual Literacy Skills ~Pictures have meanings ~Pictures and words are different Reading Readiness, which includes understanding that ~Pages turn from right to left ~Books have a front, back and right side up ~Stories have structure and development of a sense of story Print Awareness ~Provide a language enrichment environment ~Show the importance of and provide an opportunity for young readers to listen, observe, imitate, and practice language while interacting with books. Narrative Skills ~Young readers will be able to re-tell a story based on the illustrations in Picture Books Phonological Awareness ~Enhanced by guessing rhymes ~Repeating repetitious words