Bye-Bye, Bottle

by Tom Cooke, Ellen Weiss

Baby Kermit loves his bottle. He takes it everywhere he goes. He has different colored ones too. But he also wants to use a cup like the big kids. He realizes that he has to say goodbye to the bottle before he starts using the cup. And in an adorable little poem, he says "Goodbye" by putting all the bottles in the closet and joins the other toddlers in using their cups together.

14 pages, Board book

Published November 3, 1998

About the author

Tom Cooke has illustrated dozens of Sesame Street books, as well as books featuring the Muppet Babies, Kermit the Frog, and Muppet Kids, among others.

Reviews

[Kate M. Colby]

A cute book to help usher kids through the transition from bottle to cup. Jack received it as a hand me down from Aunt Jess. She had actually already chosen to quit his bottle before we read the book, but he liked looking at Kermit the Frog anyway.

[Jay Gabler]

Baby Kermit’s pure exuberance at abandoning his bottles strains belief…but I guess he is an anthropomorphic frog, so.