One day, a dirty little boy asks his mother to give him a bath. But she's very busy and tells him to watch how the animals bathe. When he tries to imitate them, he just gets dirtier and dirtier! The Dirty Little Boy was first published in 1939 by Jack and Jill magazine. Originally entitled, "How the Animals Took a Bath," it later became part of an anthology published by Curtis Publishing Company. This edition was developed in cooperation with Margaret Wise Brown's estate.