Bubble Gum Bison Needs a Bath

by Scott Rothman, Pete Oswald (Illustrator)

Overview

Bubble Gum Bison tries to avoid taking a bath but ends up needing one after a messy adventure, only to discover there is no water due to her brother Blue Bison's accidental damage to the water tank.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780593702956
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	06/11/2024
Series:	The Bison Family Series
Pages:	40
Sales rank:	492,774
Product dimensions:	11.38(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.42(d)
Lexile:	AD540L (what's this?)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Scott Rothman is a writer of screenplays and picture books, including Blue Bison Needs a Haircut, Attack of the Underwear Dragon and Return of the Underwear Dragon. His humor writing has appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, and McSweeney's. He lives in Connecticut with his wife and kids.

Pete Oswald is the New York Times bestselling illustrator of The Good Egg, The Bad Seed, and other books in the Food Group. He is also the author and illustrator of the acclaimed SEL title, The Noise Inside Boys. Pete has worked as a character designer, a concept artist, and an art director on many popular films, including Madagascar 2, Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, and Angry Birds.

Editorial Reviews

2024-03-23
Bubble Gum Bison avoids bubble baths…until that becomes impossible.

Bubble Gum Bison is having a great day, playing with her brother (whom readers may recall from 2022’s Blue Bison Needs a Haircut), conducting science experiments at school, and chewing bubble gum and blowing bright-pink bubbles with her friends on the playground. Even slipping in a big mud puddle is fun until her mother insists that Bubble Gum Bison take a bath. No way! A muddy Bubble Gum Bison escapes out the bathroom window and heads to the playground, but all her friends have gone home. She accidentally falls into a giant pile of chewed-up bubble gum and then lands in a heap of feathers. Now she desperately wants a bath, but for some reason, the whole town is out of water. In anger, Bubble Gum Bison nearly rams her head into a rock, but she hears her brother Blue Bison ramming his head into a nearby metal pipe surrounded by a puddle of water. Could that pipe have something to do with the town’s dwindling water supply? Working together, the siblings find a way to put things right. Digitally created illustrations dominated by bubble gum pink depict an adorably anthropomorphic animal cast with big eyes and rounded features; Bubble Gum Bison’s mood shifts—from unfettered exuberance while rolling in the mud to pure irritation when she learns the water’s all gone—are a delight.

Readers will wish all bad days were as fun as the one depicted here. (Picture book. 4-7)

Kirkus Reviews

"Readers will wish all bad days were as fun as the one depicted here." —Kirkus Reviews

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