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Potty
A new toddler title charts a crucial achievement.
There comes a point in a toddler’s life when going in one’s diaper is only one possible option, and the question must be raised: Should I go in my potty? With pitch-perfect humor and pacing, Leslie Patricelli follows the inner dialogue (sure to have little ones shouting responses) and hilarious actions of everyone’s favorite...more
There comes a point in a toddler’s life when going in one’s diaper is only one possible option, and the question must be raised: Should I go in my potty? With pitch-perfect humor and pacing, Leslie Patricelli follows the inner dialogue (sure to have little ones shouting responses) and hilarious actions of everyone’s favorite...more
Board Book, 28 pages
Published
September 14th 2010
by Candlewick Press
(first published 2010)
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Dec 23, 2012
Milo P.
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Potty training toddlers
Recommended to Milo by:
Mama bought it for me for potty training
I think this book is FUNNY. When I choose this book from the shelf, I love to look at the page where the little kid says, "Bye, bye diaper." I ask my Mama and Papa, "Why does he say, 'bye-bye' to his diaper?" Then I start to laugh and laugh. I also like to sit with this book when I am on my potty chair. It has a great balance of text to picture ratio for a toddler. I love the simplistic drawings. Most of all, I am so excited that the kid in the story goes potty and everyone celebrates.
When to ditch the diaper? Only a toddler knows when the time is right, but when the time gets close Potty will be there to encourage our young future potty users along. Go along with Baby as he discovers what it means to go on the potty instead of outside like a dog or in a litter box like a kitty, but on the potty like a big kid. From potty time with book in hand and kitty and doggie napping at his feet all the way to Baby’s first pair of underpants. Show your toddler just what it means to lose...more
I still haven't decided how I feel about this book. I understand the reasons for writing it and I'm hopeful that in a couple months it will prove helpful to my potty-training son. But there's something disturbing about two panels of drawings of a baby on a potty ending with the baby asleep. And I'm not sure I would use the same word choice to describe the "events" that are the center of the story. If the euphemisms aren't your euphemisms, then you either have to take the time to try to explain t...more
Patricelli's books are so darn cute. Elliott just LOVES the baby featured in many of her colorful board books, probably because of his adorable mug and because she can relate so well to his antics. This is the one potty book she has really fallen in love with, and makes us read again and again while she sits there so cute on her OWN potty. In fact, we were reading this one that one amazing day when she - just like the character she loves - actually peed in her little toilet!
April 2011 - This was an alright potty book. It falls into the general introduction to the potty category. The baby tries to decide where to go potty, then waits and waits until he goes in the potty. No info on the finer points, like toilet paper or hand washing or body parts. This seems like a good one to read when just introducing the idea of the potty, not for the hard core middle of training.
Nov 2011 - So, now that we starting some potty training, I must adjust my rating. Natalie loves this...more
Nov 2011 - So, now that we starting some potty training, I must adjust my rating. Natalie loves this...more
This book - actually everything Leslie Patricelli writes - is absolutely brilliant. My kid is one and a half, and he LOVES this book. He's young but is ready to potty train, and "Potty" SPEAKS to him. He loves sitting on the potty, reading this book about a kid sitting on a potty reading a book about sitting on the potty. It's like some sort of mind-bending meta-experience for his little brain.
Dec 13, 2011
Donna
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
toddlers prior to potty training
Recommended to Donna by:
2-3 year olds, moms, dads
Shelves:
children-s
I bought this book to help my son prepare for potty training. He laughed out loud at the antics of the toddler while he/she was waiting and waiting on the potty. And less than a week later (before we started formal potty training) my son asked to sit on the potty. And he did it! So hey, if it encourage him to potty on the big potty, it's an A+ in my book.
This one is probably the best intro to Potty books I have seen. At least Finley loves it. It kind of goes through the whole process and includes some funny things that she seems to love (like the dogs and cats and how they go potty). Of course, it hasn't made her use the potty yet, so I'm going to give it only 4 stars ;)
Cute and funny! This can be used as a tool to help with toilet training. Care takers and students can have a lot of fun with this book. It has much less words, but each short sentence hold a lot of weight, when it comes to getting children to go potty instead of 'go diaper'. I had a lot of fun reading this book :)
The baby character decides to use his potty instead of his diaper after observing the cat and the dog going the bathroom. The success is met with a cry of "Hooary!" by the parents and the pets, and the final two page spread announces "Undies!" with brightly colored illustrations.
Cute and funny for very young children. The baby's question about other animals potty habits are a highlight (I loved the picture of the cat using the litter box as the baby stares in disbelief). A very simple book with a very simple moral...if you can call it a moral.
I loved this. It cracked me up. "What does kitty do?" "Oh." Leslie Patricelli is my new favorite author for board books - I love the expressiveness of the baby in her books and the situations are so true to life. Funny and informative without being patronizing.
Cute! Jack likes it and even tries to read it himself. But isn't pottying yet because of it, so it's not magic. It's really simple, and good in the way that my little guy can try to "read" it, but could use a little more detail in language and description.
The climax of the book is where the boy, after sitting on the potty for a long time, suddenly goes, and his eyes bug out as he realizes he just went. My 2.5 year old just cracked up like heck at this page and kept wanting to reread and laugh at that page.
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Great book. Very funny for both adults and children. Educational without being patronizing, too. Wonderful drawings and a simple, clever narrative. I laugh just as much as my niece when we read this together.
The first time I read one of Leslie Patricelli's books I wasn't too sure that I liked it. Very simple illustrations and text... almost too simple. But they've grown on me and we now have a stack of her books. When O was younger and potty training this and her other books were favorite bathroom reads.
Both I and Robin seem to love the simplicity of this book. Her 2nd favorite right now after Peekaboo Morning. Really fun, simple illustrations and baby expressions.
Board book.
I loved this. It's witty and fun, but little kids will like it too. The gender is ambiguous, unlike many potty books. Super cute.
I loved this. It's witty and fun, but little kids will like it too. The gender is ambiguous, unlike many potty books. Super cute.
Life is changing now when I take the three kids to the book store; even the one and a half year old wanders around and wants to pick her own books. This was the first book she chose to read. This book was a great read for her and for the older two. They remembered their training time. The story is a fun read and well written. The illustrations are fun and the bright vibrant pallet will appeal to the young readers. But only time will tell if it will help, but either way an entertaining book the f...more
I read this when I was in the house with my grandson and thought it was a pretty persuasive pitch for the joys of abandoning the diaper...
Simple, straight-forward book that invites the reader to try out the potty themselves. Worth buying and having in a child's library.
I've read this story many times, it's a cute book...my son likes it. Not much more to say about it :)
"Tinkle, tinkle, TOOT!". My son loves it. Short and cute to the end. Hooray for undies!
My 4 year old thought this book was hilarious. We really enjoy Patricelli's books.
i crack up every time rhett reads this book! the sound effects are too much!!
Jun 01, 2012
Anna
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Read this book to a 2 year-old today. She laughed and laughed..lol
This is absolutely adorable. I love the baby's expressions
i liked how simple she talked about it
really liked it!!
really liked it!!
Good learning to use the potty book
This was so cute! A must-read:)
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Leslie Patricelli is the American writer of the books Blankie and Big Little. Leslie Patricelli grew up in Seattle, Washington close to Pine Lake. At college, Leslie Patricelli majored in Communications at the University of Washington. She became an advertising copywriter after college then became a ski instructor in Italy. Leslie Patricelli is also an illustrator for children. She created and ani...more
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