(4) PS Illustrated by Pascale Constantin. When a duck, dolphin, and other animals take over his tub, Willy can't take a bath. A fairly unimaginative and repetitive rhyming narrative relates Mom's off-stage pleas and Willy's excuses, while the playful illustrations show that the animals are really bath toys. The pages include nested flaps that gradually lengthen then become progressively shorter as animals are added then put away.

Reviewer: Kitty Flynn

(4) K-3 Illustrated by Pascale Constantin. A boy moves his stuffed animals to their sleeping places before snuggling into bed. However, the animals are not tired and cause a ruckus until he brings them back into his bed. The clever design includes nested flaps and the pages are filled with energetic illustrations, but the plodding rhyme of the first half detracts from the rest of the story.

Reviewer: Patricia Riley