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Down the Drain!
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Un tout nouvel album de Robert Munsch, aussi hilarant que les pr�c�dents, sur l'heure du bain -- le moment le plus horrible de la journ�e -- autant pour les enfants qui doivent se laver que pour les parents qui sont tenus de l'exiger.
Adam est recouvert de boue. Ses mains sont sales. Son visage est sale. Ses pieds sont sales. � Adam, c'est l'heure du bain! � hurle son papa. Adam n'aime pas prendre un bain. Il a toujours du savon dans les yeux, dans les oreilles, et m�me dans la bouche! Quand ses parents r�ussissent enfin � le plonger dans la baignoire, Adam prend le contr�le -- du robinet et du bouchon -- et c'est � ce moment-l� que l'aventure commence..
Robert Munsch's hilarious take on bathtime is a long overdue tribute to the kids who dread taking them--and the poor parents who dread giving them!
Adam is covered in dirt. His hands are dirty. His face is dirty. And his feet are dirty.
"Adam, you need a bath!" his father yells.
But Adam doesn't like baths. All that soap in his eyes, soap in his ears, and soap in his mouth! He doesn't like them one bit.
So while his little sister, his dog, and his cat are laughing, Adam's father outsmartshim and pops him in the tub.
Little does Dad know that Adam has a few tricks of his own...and once he's in the tub, in control of the tap AND the plug, the mayhem will begin!
Original title: Down the Drain!
Un tout nouvel album de Robert Munsch, aussi hilarant que les pr�c�dents, sur l'heure du bain -- le moment le plus horrible de la journ�e -- autant pour les enfants qui doivent se laver que pour les parents qui sont tenus de l'exiger.
Adam est recouvert de boue. Ses mains sont sales. Son visage est sale. Ses pieds sont sales. � Adam, c'est l'heure du bain! � hurle son papa. Adam n'aime pas prendre un bain. Il a toujours du savon dans les yeux, dans les oreilles, et m�me dans la bouche! Quand ses parents r�ussissent enfin � le plonger dans la baignoire, Adam prend le contr�le -- du robinet et du bouchon -- et c'est � ce moment-l� que l'aventure commence..
Robert Munsch's hilarious take on bathtime is a long overdue tribute to the kids who dread taking them--and the poor parents who dread giving them!
Adam is covered in dirt. His hands are dirty. His face is dirty. And his feet are dirty.
"Adam, you need a bath!" his father yells.
But Adam doesn't like baths. All that soap in his eyes, soap in his ears, and soap in his mouth! He doesn't like them one bit.
So while his little sister, his dog, and his cat are laughing, Adam's father outsmartshim and pops him in the tub.
Little does Dad know that Adam has a few tricks of his own...and once he's in the tub, in control of the tap AND the plug, the mayhem will begin!
Original title: Down the Drain!
32 pages, Paperback
First published June 1, 2009
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About the author
Robert Munsch
289 books1,677 followersRobert Munsch was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He graduated from Fordham University in 1969 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and from Boston University in 1971 with a Master of Arts degree in anthropology.
He studied to become a Jesuit priest, but decided he would rather work with children after jobs at orphanages and daycare centers. In 1973, he received a Master of Education in Child Studies from Tufts University. In 1975 he moved to Canada to work at the preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He also taught in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Guelph as a lecturer and as an assistant professor. In Guelph he was encouraged to publish the many stories he made up for the children he worked with.
Munsch's wife delivered two stillborn babies in 1979 and 1980. Out of the tragedy, he produced one of his best-known books, Love You Forever. This book was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Best selling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6,970,000 copies (not including the 1,049,000 hardcover copies). The Munsches have since become adoptive parents of Julie, Andrew and Tyya (see them all in Something Good!)
Munsch has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has also suffered from manic depression. In August 2008, Munsch suffered a stroke that affected his ability to speak in normal sentences. He has recovered enough that he is able to perform live, but has put his writing career on hold until he is fully recovered.
He studied to become a Jesuit priest, but decided he would rather work with children after jobs at orphanages and daycare centers. In 1973, he received a Master of Education in Child Studies from Tufts University. In 1975 he moved to Canada to work at the preschool at the University of Guelph in Guelph, Ontario. He also taught in the Department of Family Studies at the University of Guelph as a lecturer and as an assistant professor. In Guelph he was encouraged to publish the many stories he made up for the children he worked with.
Munsch's wife delivered two stillborn babies in 1979 and 1980. Out of the tragedy, he produced one of his best-known books, Love You Forever. This book was listed fourth on the 2001 Publishers Weekly All-Time Best selling Children's Books list for paperbacks at 6,970,000 copies (not including the 1,049,000 hardcover copies). The Munsches have since become adoptive parents of Julie, Andrew and Tyya (see them all in Something Good!)
Munsch has obsessive-compulsive disorder and has also suffered from manic depression. In August 2008, Munsch suffered a stroke that affected his ability to speak in normal sentences. He has recovered enough that he is able to perform live, but has put his writing career on hold until he is fully recovered.
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June 2, 2019
The book make me question what the father was even thinking why can't he just plug the bathtub rather then waiting for his son to do it and what was even happening in the book and it was all a mess the father the son and daughter .... What was she even doing in the story
June 26, 2010
Worst Munsh Ever!
A colleague of mine recently read this story to a class of first graders, and while they laughed and laughed, I was appalled. This story is highly disrespectful, far more so than any Munsch story before. It is not even the kind you chuckle at. For such young minds, the story makes it seem okay to blackmail adults and disobey your parents - definately not lessons I want any child to learn. It undermines the proper authority of adults (when I say that I mean it in the sense that certain individuals have the right to be obeyed by children under most circumstances - ie. Teachers, Policemen, Parents, etc.)
The story follows Adam, who hates to take baths. He gets so messy one day that his father tries to force him to take a bath. Adam lets the tub runover and the bathroom is filling up quickly. Adam blatantly refuses to unplug the tub unless his father buys him a skateboard. So his father rushes off to the store to buy his son a skateboard. This scenario repeats itself with a variety of other objects. Finally Adam unplugs the tub and falls down the drain and must use all of the objects he blackmailed his father with to escape.
Not a story I'll be recommending anytime soon.
A colleague of mine recently read this story to a class of first graders, and while they laughed and laughed, I was appalled. This story is highly disrespectful, far more so than any Munsch story before. It is not even the kind you chuckle at. For such young minds, the story makes it seem okay to blackmail adults and disobey your parents - definately not lessons I want any child to learn. It undermines the proper authority of adults (when I say that I mean it in the sense that certain individuals have the right to be obeyed by children under most circumstances - ie. Teachers, Policemen, Parents, etc.)
The story follows Adam, who hates to take baths. He gets so messy one day that his father tries to force him to take a bath. Adam lets the tub runover and the bathroom is filling up quickly. Adam blatantly refuses to unplug the tub unless his father buys him a skateboard. So his father rushes off to the store to buy his son a skateboard. This scenario repeats itself with a variety of other objects. Finally Adam unplugs the tub and falls down the drain and must use all of the objects he blackmailed his father with to escape.
Not a story I'll be recommending anytime soon.
December 30, 2018
I tried to see the good inside of this one, but I have to say that this is by far the worst Robert Munsch book I have read.
I usually see the humour in his books, but with this one, it just reminded me of all the spoiled, manipulative brats that I have encountered in my days, and this book seems to want to make a mockery out of it. I didn't like how Adam blatantly disobeyed his parents when he was asked to take a bath, sure filling the tub up so much that it overflows is funny, but when his father had to keep buying him things to get him to unplug the tub just rubbed me the wrong way:
“Well,” said Adam, “I might pull the plug if you got me a nice new skateboard.”
This manipulation happens a few more times with other things, even telling his father to get his sister something, I didn't like it. His father didn't argue, he just went and got these things no questions asked.
I'm teaching my kids that you respect other people and they should reciprocate, no matter who they are; but this story seems to make children think it's okay to be brats.
I know way too many of those kids, and I hate it.
I usually see the humour in his books, but with this one, it just reminded me of all the spoiled, manipulative brats that I have encountered in my days, and this book seems to want to make a mockery out of it. I didn't like how Adam blatantly disobeyed his parents when he was asked to take a bath, sure filling the tub up so much that it overflows is funny, but when his father had to keep buying him things to get him to unplug the tub just rubbed me the wrong way:
“Well,” said Adam, “I might pull the plug if you got me a nice new skateboard.”
This manipulation happens a few more times with other things, even telling his father to get his sister something, I didn't like it. His father didn't argue, he just went and got these things no questions asked.
I'm teaching my kids that you respect other people and they should reciprocate, no matter who they are; but this story seems to make children think it's okay to be brats.
I know way too many of those kids, and I hate it.
January 8, 2023
I know that Robert Munsch's books are immensely popular. In fact a few years ago I was a huge fan and purchased and gave away copy after copy of many of his books. Yet I find in his more recent books that there is a cynicism and disrespect that I no longer enjoy.
In this story, Adam who winds up in trouble, ends up blackmailing his father to get him a new skateboard, new shoes, a dress for his sister and a hamburger. Those are not the kinds of lessons I want my children learning - that they only have to do what you ask them if you bribe them.
The story is supposed to be fun and humorous and the illustrations are great. But it is just not a story I can recommend. I find that some of the most cynical people in life are formerly religious, and even more so for Jesuits. Maybe that explains Munsch's writing and stories.
In this story, Adam who winds up in trouble, ends up blackmailing his father to get him a new skateboard, new shoes, a dress for his sister and a hamburger. Those are not the kinds of lessons I want my children learning - that they only have to do what you ask them if you bribe them.
The story is supposed to be fun and humorous and the illustrations are great. But it is just not a story I can recommend. I find that some of the most cynical people in life are formerly religious, and even more so for Jesuits. Maybe that explains Munsch's writing and stories.
December 21, 2020
Down the Drain by Robert Munsch tells the story of little Adam who has to take a bath after getting dirty playing outside. While in the bath, the water overflows and floods the bathroom. His dad comes in to ask him to pull the plug but Adam refuses. Instead, he tells his dad that he will only pull the plug if his dad buys him a skateboard. When he returns with the skateboard, he says he will only pull the plug if his dad buys him new shoes. When he returns with the new shoes, he says he will only pull the plug if his dad gets him a hamburger. Somehow, Adam ends up going down the drain and uses the skateboard, shoes and hamburger to get his way out.
This isn't my favourite book from Robert Munsch. Adam exploited the situation and bribed his dad. Instead of that bad behaviour backfiring, his bribery ended up helping him get out of the drain.
This isn't my favourite book from Robert Munsch. Adam exploited the situation and bribed his dad. Instead of that bad behaviour backfiring, his bribery ended up helping him get out of the drain.
January 9, 2016
cute and funny! the illustration of the skate boarding store made me laugh out loud! there's a gramma looking at skate boards. there's dogs on skateboards ! hysterical!
February 14, 2021
Awesome book
February 14, 2023
This book traumatized me as a child. It took me years to be able to bathe without being afraid of being sucked down the drain.
April 12, 2009
When you see the name Robert Munsch, you can guarantee that the book is going to be a winner. His stories are always so much fun. He takes simple things to such extremes that while reading you can’t help but get caught up in the silliness.
Down the Drain is a perfect example of Munsch mania. The story takes place in the bathtub. Adam forgets to turn off the water and the bathroom begins to flood. The solution seems simple enough- just pull the plug but Adam decides that this is the perfect opportunity to get a few things that his father wouldn’t normally get for him. Hilarity ensues.
Down the Drain is a perfect example of Munsch mania. The story takes place in the bathtub. Adam forgets to turn off the water and the bathroom begins to flood. The solution seems simple enough- just pull the plug but Adam decides that this is the perfect opportunity to get a few things that his father wouldn’t normally get for him. Hilarity ensues.
May 29, 2012
Robert Munsh is brilliant. His stories are both able to entertain me, as an adult, and my four year old son. I personally believe that we do not have to be bored by the stories we read to our young children and Robert Munsch is proof that both child and adult can be entertained by a well written story. As well, Michael Martchenko is proof that illustrations can be humorous, witty, and talented.
April 20, 2013
A great Munsch book with lots of laughs. Although I really enjoyed this book, this is one of the few Munsch books that focuses far more on the comedic aspect, than on the morals or character-building traits for young readers. It does, however, teach kids what "could" happen if you leave the water running in the tub. Still a great read!
April 16, 2012
Read with kids I tutor
October 26, 2012
This book is great for new learners to french. It is simple and funny and easy to understand. I recommend any one that wants to learn french to first read this book.
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