Girls Use the Potty!

by D.K. Publishing

Take the worry out of potty training with this fun and informative guide that encourages your child to use the potty like a big girl. Now your child can be potty perfect with this step-by-step guide to using the potty with pride! With lots of friendly advice, and special reward stickers to encourage success, soon your toddler will be able to say, "Bye-bye, diapers!"    
 
With rhyming text, this book is fully illustrated and complete with a pull-out chart and star stickers. The emphasis is on motivating children to use the potty correctly by giving them praise and rewarding their success as they take their first steps towards becoming diaper-free. This book is a great introduction to a challenging family subject. 

Motivating and fun! Includes 80 reward stickers for your brave little trouper. Practice makes perfect!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

20 pages, Paperback

First published August 15, 2005

About the author

Dorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.

Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.

Source: Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Rachel]

This book is probably better for older children who are potty training - my 20 month old daughter wasn’t that interested but I did like how clear and instructive it is with real children as examples. The stickers and chart I feel will come in handy later in our potty training journey as we are only in the very early stages at the moment so this is a book she’ll probably grow into!

[Megan]

another book that helped reinforce potty training when my daughter was trained at 27 months old.

[kim]

great photos, lots of text, better for older potty learners

[Kelly Chester]

What a great book

[Nicole Brown]

Great read!

[Lisa]

I'm going to get another book for potty training.
They had a girl going shopping to pick out her own underwear - I bought some for my daughter, so she only gets to pick from the pack I bought.

It has a girl picking out her own potty- well, some people pick out a trainer for the toilet seat instead of a seperate toddler toilet. OR they pick one for their toddler.

The concept of the girls teddy bear picking out his/her own seat and putting her teddy bear on the potty is weird. I understand that she is showing her teddy by example, but it was stretching it for me. My daughter has a doll and not a teddy bear. She might not be able to relate to the teddy bear (or toy using the potty and scrubbing his "hands".

[Lauren]

This one isn't as great- it's mostly about choosing a potty and then puts Teddy on the potty instead of the little girl- plus some of the pages make it seem like you are supposed to wash your hands before using the potty- which I guess isn't bad if you wash them after as well, but still.. but Finley does like the stickers (of course again, she hasn't gotten one because she hasn't used the potty) but she seems them and says potty stickers so I guess she is getting the idea?

[Meredith]

A little girl learns to use the potty.

Illustrated with photographs, a little girl takes the reader through all the steps of toilet training by teaching her teddy bear.

The boy gendered companion book is Big Boys Use the Potty!.

[Cher]

it was kinda cute. Hard not to laugh while reading it in some spots ...This is a serious step!

[Karen]

It is nice that it has pictures of real girls using the potty. Kids do gravitate towards real kids instead of drawings.

[Adeline Miller]

My daughter loves this potty book and asks to read it again and again!

[Annique]

Someone was little, but not a baby. And then she was a big girl. And she used the potty. She did that when she was a big girl.

[Thomas]

Read ATY 2024 one of two books with similar covers
Pros:well written and laid out serves it's purpose and the use of teddy is excellent.
cons: pity the books need gender seperation