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May 13, 2018
This book was amazing! and I loved it. I like it because it teaches the children how to potty and it meet the children right where they are when they are going through the potty stage. The illustrations were unique because it actually shows the children transitioning from diapers to potty. It also shows examples of going to potty and some of the pictures was textile. This book relates to both the boys and girls gender. This book also is suitable for young children especially if he or she is transitioning to the potty. I would emphasize the cleaning of the bottom because it wasn't mentioned in the book which is important for the children especially if they are learning how to potty.
April 1, 2024
We own this book. I have to say that this is a very good book for kids during the potty training years. You can even choose to keep it or pass it on. If you keep it there is a section in the back that makes it a keepsake. Super cool for parents that want momento's.
March 16, 2010
Love it!
July 26, 2016
Izzy Neis, I Want to Potty (Piggy Toes Press, 2005)
I have held forth, in a number of reviews (most of them of teenlit), on the difference—admittedly, sometimes very slight—between using age-appropriate language and talking down to one's audience. There are some other shades to the problem as well that I don't usually go into, having less to do with the author's intended language and more to do with the author's actual language (usually, in these cases, gleaned from “how to write” books that tell you things like you should try to avoid using “said” too often and instead substitute synonyms—here's a note, kids, that almost always ends up making your dialogue sound clunky), but in the end, it always comes back to whether you're treating your audience like equals or like idiots. I should rush to add there that not every book that uses easy language is talking down to kids; the reason Dr. Seuss' books are still so popular all these years later is that he got the difference. He used simple language, but he didn't strip out any of the wordplay, and as a result he wrote books that are as much fun for adults as they are for kids, and they make kids feel smarter for reading them. All of this is a very long-winded way of saying that I Want to Potty is very much not one of those books; this is language that has been stripped of anything save didacticism, and what's worse it's not even all that simple. It's the potty-training equivalent of sitting a kid down for the birds and the bees talk and handing him a book written in the fifties instead of actually talking.
For all that, though, it does have some interactivity to it, and because of that the Bean makes this one a regular stop at story time, and because of that I'm giving it a higher rating than I otherwise would; if you're anything like me, you're going to tire of it pretty quickly, but the kids just love it. **
I have held forth, in a number of reviews (most of them of teenlit), on the difference—admittedly, sometimes very slight—between using age-appropriate language and talking down to one's audience. There are some other shades to the problem as well that I don't usually go into, having less to do with the author's intended language and more to do with the author's actual language (usually, in these cases, gleaned from “how to write” books that tell you things like you should try to avoid using “said” too often and instead substitute synonyms—here's a note, kids, that almost always ends up making your dialogue sound clunky), but in the end, it always comes back to whether you're treating your audience like equals or like idiots. I should rush to add there that not every book that uses easy language is talking down to kids; the reason Dr. Seuss' books are still so popular all these years later is that he got the difference. He used simple language, but he didn't strip out any of the wordplay, and as a result he wrote books that are as much fun for adults as they are for kids, and they make kids feel smarter for reading them. All of this is a very long-winded way of saying that I Want to Potty is very much not one of those books; this is language that has been stripped of anything save didacticism, and what's worse it's not even all that simple. It's the potty-training equivalent of sitting a kid down for the birds and the bees talk and handing him a book written in the fifties instead of actually talking.
For all that, though, it does have some interactivity to it, and because of that the Bean makes this one a regular stop at story time, and because of that I'm giving it a higher rating than I otherwise would; if you're anything like me, you're going to tire of it pretty quickly, but the kids just love it. **
May 10, 2008
Gives the child a goal to work toward with a graduate certificate at the book's end. Cute!
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