Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs

Remember...
Take Me Out to the
Ballgame
and
I've Been Working on the
Railroad?

Songwriter and comedy writer extraordinaire Alan Katz has turned those and other old favorites on their ears and created new nonsense songs kids will love. With zany, spirited pictures by illustrator and cartoonist David Catrow, this kooky collection guarantees laughs and plenty of silly dillyness for kids everywhere

Author: Alan Katz
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Published: 05/01/2001
Pages: 32
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 11.31h x 8.80w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780689829031
Audience: Baby-Preschool

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 4.2
Point Value: 0.5
Interest Level: Lower Grade
Quiz #/Name: 87175 / Take Me Out of the Bathtub and Other Silly Dilly Songs


Award: Buckaroo Book Award - Second Place
Award: Colorado Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Beehive Awards - Winner
Award: North Carolina Children's Book Award - Winner
Award: Book Sense Book of the Year Award - Nominee
Award: Bookseller's Choice - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Review - Children 04/01/2001 pg. 499
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2001 pg. 63
School Library Journal 04/01/2001 pg. 132
Ingram Children's Advance 05/01/2001 pg. 50
Booklist 07/01/2001 pg. 2016
Hornbook Guide to Children 01/01/2001 pg. 392 - Recommended, Satisfactory
Hornbook Guide to Children 07/01/2001 pg. 392 - Recommended, Satisfactory
School Library Journal 06/01/2005 pg. 56

About the Author
Alan Katz has been a print and television comedy writer for more than twenty years. In addition to being a multiple Emmy nominee for his work on The Rosie O'Donnell Show and Disney's Raw Toonage, he has written for children's programming on Nickelodeon, ABC Television, Warner Bros. Animation's Taz-Mania, and many others. Alan is the author of several adult humor books, humorous essays for The New York Times and other publications, and books for young readers. Alan lives in Weston, Connecticut, with his journalist wife, Rose, and their children Simone, Andrew, Nathan, and David. Visit him online at AlanKatzBooks.com.

David Catrow is the illustrator of numerous notable books for children, including the other Silly Dilly books, as well as Kathryn Lasky's She's Wearing a Dead Bird on Her Head!, which was named a New York Times Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Mr. Catrow is also a nationally syndicated editorial cartoonist whose work appears in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Sun-Times, as well as in nine hundred other newspapers. He lives in Springfield, Ohio.