Bye-Bye Binky

Nori #2

by Brigitte Weninger, Yusuke Yonezu (Illustrator)

Nora is a big girl now, but she still clings to her pacifier when she gets sleepy. One day it falls out of her pocket while she’s playing outside. Ella Elephant doesn’t know what it is, but she thinks it’ll make a beautiful ring for her trunk. When she too loses it, Lotti Lamb finds it and thinks it’ll make a nice hair clip. One by one different animals find the binky and put it to different uses, only to lose it again. And just when Nora finally finds it, she realizes that maybe she doesn’t need it anymore. Here is a cute, funny look at what it means to put aside baby things, and will serve as a help to all those parents hoping to say bye-bye to that binky!

Genres: Picture Books, Animals

32 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2007

Reviews

[☼Bookish in Virginia☼]

The artwork in this book is adorable. So. Very. Adorable! It features a variety of animals from kitty (the main character) to a sweet blue elephant, a lamb, mama chicken and chicks, and piggy, along with a ducky who isn't part of the main story.

Even the end papers are cute, showing a variety of pacifiers with different shapes as bases.

The story is about Nori, the little kitten. He is a big fan of his pacifier and yet, one day, he loses it. The rest of the story features different animal friends finding it but not recognizing that it's his, nor in fact, what it is.

Ella the elephant thinks it's an attractive trunk ring. Lotti Lamb believes it's a hair accessory and so on.

At the end Nori finds it again but comes to realize that he doesn't need it anymore. And so he lets it go.

THOUGHTS
There's no logic to why Nori lets it go, but I don't think little ones need logic. Sometimes all I think they need is an example to show that it can be done.

In any case, this sweet book is worth driving to the library to get. Kid pleasing art and words. It may even help you to help your little one decide to give up his/her pacifier.

~Library Find

[Heidi-Marie · Rating 2 out of 5]

This story was all right. I think the cutest part was all the ways the animals used the binky. And the main reason I pulled the book is because that's what we used to call Joseph's pacifiers.

3/27/18 Pulled this because it is something we need to so with SS besides the potty training. We have him doing pretty well with telling him he cannot have it in the car anymore (unless it is naptime on a long drive). He keeps asking and asking. And I'm hoping by his birthday (6 months) we can get him off. So I'm looking for the book supports. This one could work. I guess. They would only be able to be read before nap or bedtime when he HAS the binky in, or else he would start calling for it. He is getting better at it, so I don't think we need this just yet. Especially with potty training on the mind.