Ask a Bookseller: 'Bathe the Cat'

Ask a Bookseller · Sep 16, 2023 · 2m

All this month on Ask a Bookseller, we're featured books for kids and teens — and the grown — ups who love to read with them. This week's book is a “phenomenal read-aloud,” according to Jessica Palacios of Once Upon a Time Bookstore in Montrose, Calif. It's the picture book “Bathe the Cat,” written by Minneapolis-born author Alice B. McGinty and illustrated by David Roberts.Palacios says the book's bright illustrations, word play, and silly antics make it a go-to book. (Once Upon a Time has a bookstore cat, and, yes, she did read this book aloud at its annual birthday party.)In this story, a…