The Big Bath House

author : Kyo Maclear | illustrator : Gracey Zhang | Hardback | 4-8 years | 40 pages

ผู้แต่ง : Kyo Maclear | ผู้วาดภาพประกอบ : Gracey Zhang | ปกแข็ง | สำหรับอายุ 4-8 ปี | 40 หน้า

 

A joyful celebration of Japanese cultural traditions and body positivity as a young girl visits a bath house with her grandmother and aunties

 

In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girl--along with her aunties and grandmother--at a traditional bath house. Once there, the rituals leading up to the baths begin: hair washing, back scrubbing, and, finally, the wood barrel drumroll. Until, at last, it's time, and they ease their bodies--their creased bodies, newly sprouting bodies, saggy, jiggly bodies--into the bath. Ahhhhhh!

 

With a lyrical text and gorgeous illustrations, this picture book is based on Kyo Maclear's loving memories of childhood visits to Japan, and is an ode to the ties that bind generations of women together.