![]() ![]() ![]() Complete with lyrics and notation, the song is about many of the critters wallowing in the mud with the hippos. The main addition to the original book’s text is an interpolated scene in which the animals pile into bed and two rabbits sing a lullaby. The pacing has been stretched out so that scenes that once occupied one page now stretch out over double-page spreads. Playfully (but slightly inexplicably right before bedtime), they head to the deck to exercise. Now everybody goes below // to take a bath / in one big tub / with soap all over- / SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB!” In gently rhyming verse that generations of readers have committed to memory already, a hippo, a dog, a couple of rabbits, a pig, a moose, an elephant, and more take a bath, put on pajamas, and brush their teeth. ![]() A motley crew of Boynton critters get ready for bed aboard a boat in this picture book based on the beloved The Going to Bed Book, first published as a board book in 1982. ![]()
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