Soap! Soap! Don't Forget the Soap! by Tom Birdseye

Have you ever known one of those really forgetful kids or maybe been one yourself? Well if so, this is the book for you! Once again, by looking at the front cover of this book, your first impression may be hick but that doesn't make the book bad.

This book starts out with the narrator explaining to you that Plug Honeycutt is so forgetful that he sometimes forgets his own name. The only person that really believes in him is his own mother. One day they are out of soap at home so Plug's mother sends him to the store to get some. And along with some money she gives him a song to recite, "Soap! Soap! Don't forget the soap!" Well obviously the book just doesn't end there. Plug goes through many different adventures throughout where he forgets and then is reminded by people yelling at him about what he has to get. Finally he makes it to the store and buys the soap and then runs straight home to get it to his mother.

I thought that this was an interesting book but it really gives a good lesson to people who can be a bit careless. At the end of this story, after getting yelled at several times, Plug knows that he will never forget anything that his mother says again. I think that I enjoyed this book because I have had times like Plug where I can be really forgetful and I think that many kids can make some kind of a connection to the story. It also has so good pictures and I think that kids would enjoy reading about all of the adventures Plug goes through. (Also, isn't Plug a sweet name? haha)