Genre
Picture books for children
Subject
Baths
Bears
Cleanliness
Dirtiness
Friendship
Helpfulness
Itching
Odors
Character
Anthropomorphic

[Scholastic]
Kids will love this lighthearted and fun tale about keeping clean, featuring an adorable character that bath-resistant little ones will really relate to.
It's never bath time for Big Smelly Bear: he doesn't brush, he doesn't wash, and he's simply unbearable. No one can stand to come close! Then, one day, he wakes up with a most awful, unreachable itch. He could really use a little scratch from a friend, but Big Fluffy Bear won't help because Big Smelly Bear stinks! Will he change his ways and bathe? The witty ending is sure to satisfy!

Used this for some storytime practice, and it was really quite cute. ( )

Nobody will scratch Big Smelly Bear's back because he stinks too bad. Big Fluffy Bear convinces him to take a bath and he learns that he likes being clean!
1 book

This modern fantasy is about a smelly bear who nobody wants to be around because he smells so bad and is so dirty. One day this bear has an itch he can't scratch and needs help from a fluffy bear, who tells him he needs to wash himself before she helps him. At first big smelly bear refuses and will not wash himself, but eventually fluffy bear convinces him to. The two scratch each others backs and eventually become friends and big smelly bear secretly takes baths at night time. ( )