tub-boo-boo
We've all been there. You're snorkeling around a good bubble bath,  trying to wash off a long day's worth of playground dirt. And then "one drippy  drop" from the faucet starts to drive you crazy. So what do you do? Why "slow  the flow with [your] little big toe," of course. Just like wild-haired little  Henry Hathaway did. Only Henry wasn't so lucky; Henry got stuck."Oops.""What oops?" said Mother."Big oops," said Henry. "I think I made a boo-boo... a TUB-boo-boo.""A tub-what-who?"So Mother climbs in the bath: "She was absolutely sure, positively positive that  if she could just wiggle her fingers up into the spigot and wrangle them around  Henry's little big toe... why... well... uh...." And before you can say "What  the hay?" (that's Dad's line), everyone from the plumber to the policeman tries  to help, committing their own tub-boo-boos and getting "stuck smack-dab in the  spout."This silly, cyclical story plays well to the strengths of unapologetic goofball  Margie Palatini (Zoom  Broom,The Web  Files), who's never afraid to get messy with the sort of repetitive  wordplay that kids love. But what you'll likely love first and best aboutTub-Boo-Booare the surreal, Stretch Armstrong-style illustrations of  Glin Dibley (better known in the teen world as Michael Koelsch, for hisStrange Kid Chronicles, Magic  cards, and such). With Dibley's unlikely palette--spacey blues and greens and  browns accented with arresting orange hair and just-polished red  fingernails--and a bubble-headed cast of bathers that always looks just  half-inflated, it's hard not to stare. (Ages 4 to 8)--Paul Hughes