The Big Bath House

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

Youll walk down the street / Your aunties sounding like clip-clopping horses / geta-geta-geta / in their wooden sandals / Until you arrive/ At the bath house / The big bath house.

In this celebration of Japanese culture and family and naked bodies of all shapes and sizes, join a little girlalong with her aunties and grandmotherat 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, its time, and they ease their bodiestheir creased bodies, newly sprouting bodies, saggy, jiggly bodiesinto the bath.Ahhhhhh!

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