Sam’s Bath

A fun story that teaches children to ask before they take people's things.

This story would be a great way to test your problem solving and prediction skills. Sam doesn’t have a bath in his house so how can he make himself clean. Why are the animals looking at him like that on the cover?

Title: Sam’s Bath

Author: Ali Foster

Illustrator: Nikki Slade Robinson

Publisher: Duck Creek Press

ISBN: 9781927305683

RRP: $19.99

Format: paperback

Publication: September 2021

Ages: 4+

Themes: Country life, Respect for others

Do you have any advisory warnings for this book? Partial nudity (in context, Sam’s in the bath)

Would this book work as a read aloud? Yes

Is there a particular part of the country that it’s set in? rural or semi-rural

Reviewer: Leanne Nathan, Associate Principal, Clendon Park School, Auckland

How are you recommending this book? Recommended

Opening sentence: Sam lived at the end of a quiet country road.

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