Brush! Brush! Brush! /

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Smile wide and brush! brush! brush! in this adorable rhyming board book that teaches little ones how to clean their teeth!

Discover the whole Baby Steps Series with Play! Play! Play! (2018) and Bath! Bath! Bath! (2018)!

Brushing teeth is fun! fun! fun!
After dinner is done! done! done!

Everyone needs to brush! brush! brush! their teeth-inside, outside, right, and left. Bright smiles and enthusiastic kids show toddlers the basics of tooth brushing in this bouncy read-aloud.

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Booklist Review

From the writer and illustrator of Play! Play! Play! (2018) and Bath! Bath! Bath! (2018), this colorful board book introduces the process of toothbrushing to young children. A cheerful, multicultural cast of kids take turns stepping up to deliver rhyming lines, such as "Brushing up and down! down! down! / Move the toothbrush round! round! round!" The repeated words set up a rhythmic pattern that encourages listeners to chime in with the chant, while the vibrant illustrations make the toothbrushing process look like fun. An encouraging book for children who are learning to clean their teeth.

Kirkus Book Review

Flash those pearly whites! Renowned poet Florian's jaunty rhymes suggest that a hygiene ritual many children consider bothersome can be "fun! fun! fun!" Each spread features lively scenes showing kids demonstrating tooth- and mouth-cleansing techniques as well as two couplets in which the second exclamatory lines--containing a word repeated three times--rhyme with each other ("Toothpaste on the / brush! brush! brush!" "Take your time. / Don't rush! rush! rush!"). Parents and caregivers seeking an enjoyable, stimulating way to motivate youngsters to perform this important daily task may wish to recite the rollicking verses to provide a pleasant, rhythmic, chanting "background" whenever their kids wield their toothbrushes. The colorful, energetic illustrations depict happy, wide-eyed, racially diverse small children--some with missing teeth--taking care of their oral-hygiene business with gusto. (This book was reviewed digitally.) We'll say it: a toothsome experience. (Board book. 2-5) Copyright (c) Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Douglas Florian, writer and illustrator of children's books, was born March 18, 1950 in New York City. He was educated at Queens College of the City University of New York, receiving a B.A. in 1973. He also attended the School of Visual Arts in 1976.

His early work was as a political illustrator and cartoonist; he did many drawings for The New York Times and for the New Yorker magazine. More recently, his self-illustrated books include A Fisher, Beast Feast, and Bing Bang Boing. His illustrations have appeared in Freeing the Natural Voice (with Kristin Linklater), Dorothy O. Van Woerkom's Tit for Tat, and Thomas M. Cook and Robert A. Russell's Introduction to Management Science. Additionally, he has contributed more than 300 drawings to magazines and newspapers, including Travel and Leisure, Across the Board, and The Nation.

Florian has received numerous awards including the Reading Magic Award from Parenting magazine in 1994 for Bing, Bang, Boing. He was the Books of Distinction finalist in the Hungry Mind Review for Bing Bang Boing. Beast Feast received the Gold Medal from the National Parenting Publications awards in 1994, the Lee Bennett Hopkins Award for Poetry in 1995, and Dinothesaurus was a Junior Library Guild Selection in 2010.

(Bowker Author Biography)