Bluey: Bath Book review
Summary: Reading a book about baths, in the bath, because it's a bath book. Loved it as a chance to do something that wasn't screen, or a re-enacting a scene from Water World.
4.5/5
Words with Bluey
Bluey: Bath Book is exactly what it sounds like – a book you can literally read in the bath. I can’t understand how this is the first time I’ve had one of these… hopefully some of you can relate to my pain when I say I sometimes have to bargain for bath time with “2 videos”.
We’ve done our best to introduce books at this time as a calm substitute – sometimes we’ve had success if they are about a preferred topic (trains, etc). But the obvious barrier is water plus paper. Trying to navigate this whilst Campbell is trying to wrestle the book, point at things in the pages, get washed, is like wrestling a Kraken.
Bluey: Bath Book has given us a chance to trial bath times without the chaos of water play being solved by a screen (some of the time). Campbell has loved turning the pages himself – and although the story might be a bit truncated within the pages for his current level of comprehension, I’ve managed to entice him into making ‘burgers’ from bubbles already.
And Campbell’s little brother Sidney gets in on the action too, crushing the book much to Campbell’s frustration, usually resolved by force-feeding of burger bubbles. I’ve enjoyed having more chances to scaffold gentle play in a pressured environment like the bath.
4.5/5 stars.
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