SuitabookPresident Taft is stuck in the bath
Mac Barnett, Chris Van Dusen
- Reading
- Read together and pause to notice how the advisers’ suggestions shape the comedy. Afterwards, distinguish the book’s imagined episode from what you already know about presidential history.
- Themes
- History and comic invention: The book imagines a bathtub incident involving President Taft and cabinet members on the day of his inauguration. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Worth knowing
- The central comic predicament involves a person unable to get out of a bathtub. Consider whether that physical-comedy scenario suits your reader; its intensity and resolution are not established.