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The green bath

Sammy's mother tells him to forget about adventures and get cleaned up for his grandmother's visit, but the new bathtub Sammy's father brought home seems determined to have an adventure of its own.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Mahy, Margaret
Other Authors:	Kellogg, Steven (Illustrator)
Format:	Books Print Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013.
Edition:	1st ed.
Subjects:	Bathtubs > Juvenile fiction. Baths > Juvenile fiction. Adventure stories > Juvenile
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Summary:	Sammy's mother tells him to forget about adventures and get cleaned up for his grandmother's visit, but the new bathtub Sammy's father brought home seems determined to have an adventure of its own.
Physical Description:	[34] pages : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
ISBN:	9780545206679 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0545206677 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780545206686 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0545206685 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Author Notes:	Margaret Mahy was born on March 21, 1936 in Whakatane, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. She received a B.A. degree from the University of New Zealand. She worked as a nurse, an assistant librarian, and a children's librarian in England and New Zealand. Her first book, A Lion in the Meadow, was published in 1969. She became a full-time author in 1980. During her lifetime, she wrote more than 120 children's books including The Haunting, The Changeover, Memory, The Seven Chinese Brothers, The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate and A Summery Saturday Morning. She won the Esther Glen Award five times, the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association three times, the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, Hans Christian Andersen Award, and in 1999, she won the New Zealand Post Children's Book Award in two categories, Picture Book and Supreme Award. She died after a brief illness on July 23, 2012 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography)