In this story, Jean, a fork who hates taking baths in the sink and detest showering in the dishwasher, learns that good hygiene will improve his health and his relationships with the other silverware.

Woohoo Storytime! Roys Bedoys learns what bad manners are at a restaurant. This is a great book for children to learn good manners.

This book is a curriculum for students with autism, AS, learning and developmental disabilities, designed to help them understand how others perceive their appearance and the social implications of neglecting personal hygiene. Simple factual information is accompanied by cartoons that emphasize how others view someone with poor hygiene.

Smelly Melly, Personal Hygiene for Kids and Little Monsters takes children and their parents on an informative, and fun journey as Smelly Melly learns the different ways to become a clean and happy Monster who makes lots of new friends. Created by Tony Densley and Niki Palmer Smelly Melly is the second book for Beanz Books, whose aim is to provide information and education to children and parents on everyday health and social issues. Smelly Melly is a warm and friendly monster looking to make new friends, but due to his poor hygiene, he is often left out of the schoolyard games. Smelly Melly, Personal Hygiene for Monsters and Little Kids, deals with a personal problem but also subtly touches on friendship, bullying, difference and discrimination. The interaction of the children and Smelly Melly provides your child and you as the parent a lesson in hygiene and explains good and bad habits, starting with the basics of handwashing and teeth cleaning, it covers all aspects of personal hygiene. Smelly Melly explains concepts of germs and bad smells and the importance of grooming to help in feeling good about yourself and incorporating good cleanliness habits into your everyday life. Full of basic health and hygiene tips Smelly Melly learns the importance or personal cleanliness in a positive and engaging way. Importantly the story also shows the value of friends when others are teasing you. This book offers a story of happiness when a young Monster is educated in socially acceptable behaviour and included by their peers. Your child may relate to some of the characters, and the story can provoke many discussions on the different aspects of Personal Hygiene. We hope you enjoy Smelly Melly!!

This back-to-school tale is a humorous and relatable read for rising first graders and young children facing new experiences. It's the first day of school, and Hayley is excited. Things are different now. She's a first grader! Hayley quickly finds out that first grade is different from kindergarten, but in all the wrong ways. The classroom isn't as bright and colorful. Ms. Gray doesn't seem to smile as much as her kindergarten teacher did, and there isn't enough time to play outside. Finally, Hayley has had enough. "First grade stinks!" she shouts. And fortunately, her compassionate teacher completely understands. Young readers will immediately empathize with Hayley as she struggles to find enthusiasm for her new school year.

The scientific and social history surrounding the 1880 incident of a foul odor in Paris and the development of public health culture that followed. Late in the summer of 1880, a wave of odors enveloped large portions of Paris. As the stench lingered, outraged residents feared that the foul air would breed an epidemic. Fifteen years later—when the City of Light was in the grips of another Great Stink—the public conversation about health and disease had changed dramatically. Parisians held their noses and protested, but this time few feared that the odors would spread disease. Historian David S. Barnes examines the birth of a new microbe-centered science of public health during the 1880s and 1890s, when the germ theory of disease burst into public consciousness. Tracing a series of developments in French science, medicine, politics, and culture, Barnes reveals how the science and practice of public health changed during the heyday of the Bacteriological Revolution. Despite its many innovations, however, the new science of germs did not entirely sweep away the older “sanitarian” view of public health. The longstanding conviction that disease could be traced to filthy people, places, and substances remained strong, even as it was translated into the language of bacteriology. Ultimately, the attitudes of physicians and the French public were shaped by political struggles between republicans and the clergy, by aggressive efforts to educate and “civilize” the peasantry, and by long-term shifts in the public’s ability to tolerate the odor of bodily substances. “A well-developed study in medically related social history, it tells an intriguing tale and prompts us to ask how our own cultural contexts affect our views and actions regarding environmental and infectious scourges here and now.” —New England Journal of Medicine “Both a captivating story and a sophisticated historical study. Kudos to Barnes for this valuable and insightful book that both physicians and historians will enjoy.” —Journal of the American Medical Association

A spirited chronicle of the West's ambivalent relationship with dirt The question of cleanliness is one every age and culture has answered with confidence. For the first-century Roman, being clean meant a two-hour soak in baths of various temperatures, scraping the body with a miniature rake, and a final application of oil. For the aristocratic Frenchman in the seventeenth century, it meant changing your shirt once a day and perhaps going so far as to dip your hands in some water. Did Napoleon know something we didn't when he wrote Josephine "I will return in five days. Stop washing"? And why is the German term Warmduscher—a man who washes in warm or hot water—invariably a slight against his masculinity? Katherine Ashenburg takes on such fascinating questions as these in Dirt on Clean, her charming tour of attitudes to hygiene through time. What could be more routine than taking up soap and water and washing yourself? And yet cleanliness, or the lack of it, is intimately connected to ideas as large as spirituality and sexuality, and historical events that include plagues, the Civil War, and the discovery of germs. An engrossing fusion of erudition and anecdote, Dirt on Clean considers the bizarre prescriptions of history's doctors, the hygienic peccadilloes of great authors, and the historic twists and turns that have brought us to a place Ashenburg considers hedonistic yet oversanitized.