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DPL Early Learning: Story Time (Bed & Bath)
Updated Dec 2025. Books to enhance bed and bath story time. In alphabetical order by last name of author. Created January 2025
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- It's bath time! Kitty is a bit dirty. After Kitty, all the other animals also take a bath one by one, each in their own way. And Georgie? Is he going to wash himself, too? Join Kitty and the others in a playful exploration of baths and washes.
- When Mama Llama says it is time to clean up, Llama ignores her since he is more interested in playing than cleaning, but Mama finds an imaginative way to teach Llama a lesson about cleanliness.
- Pig has been looking forward to a lovely peaceful bath all day. In come Sheep, Cow and Horse - they are very noisy! What can Pig do to make them go away?
- Small Elephant does not want to take a bath, until Mommy comes up with a special way to make bathtime fun.
- Bath time is fun! fun! fun! in this playful board book! Today we had such fun! fun! fun! But now the day is done! done! done! After a fun-filled day, it's time to go home and take a bath! From washing tiny toes and your little nose to making rubber…
- No matter what kind of messes a little bunny experiences through the day, bath time makes things fresh and new.
- Bath time is full of magic. The faucet flows like a waterfall, the bathroom floor is a distant shore, toy boats sail against the waves. An imagination-fueled adventure on the high seas is just what it takes to get little one clean.
- A stinky cat hides when it's time for a bath.
- As a child takes a bath and gets ready for bed, characters from fairy tales accompany the child.
- Bear tries to convince Skunk to take a bath.
- A rhyming picture book reveals the way familiar animals, from elephants and pigs to monkeys and hippos, take baths, and how human children do not take baths by sinking in mud, thrashing about in dust or licking themselves clean.
- Have you ever had a grumpy day and not known why? Penguin is having a grumpy day like that. No matter what he does, he just can't shake it! Sometimes the only thing left to do is wash the grumpy day away and start over.
- Small children will relate to this story about Rabbit's bathtime routine, as he plays with the bubbles while washing, gets water in his nose then comes out to be toweled dry.
- Four little bears covered in mud don't want to take a bath.
- Little Oink is a neat little pig, but his parents will not allow him to play with his friends until he is messy, as pigs should be.
- Bubble Gum Bison is very pink and very dirty. She wants to keep playing, even though she is completely covered in mud. Bubble Gum Bison needs a bath. But theres no water, and no one knows why. Bubble Gum Bison is more and more in need of a bath,…
- The only thing Little Bird likes about rain is the puddles it leaves behind, but after flying through Manhattan to find the perfect puddle, his bath is interrupted again and again.
- I take a bath. I wash myself with my washcloth, and Mom washes my hair. I play some more, and then I wrap my soft, warm towel around me! Next, I put on my pajamas. I drink my bottle of milk and read my book. I go to sleep with my sweet teddy bear! A…
- Ellie the elephant's relaxing bath is disrupted by splashing friends, prompting her to suck up all of the water into her trunk until everyone else leaves.
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