Girls Use the Potty!

by Andrea Pinnington

You can big a big girl too! With lots of friendly advice and a special reward-sticker chart, potty time is fun and easy. Bye-bye, diapers!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

12 pages, Board Book

First published August 15, 2005

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[kim · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Kelly Chester · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a great book

[Nicole Brown · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read!

[Lisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 3 out of 5]

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 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Karen · Rating 3 out of 5]

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

[Adeline Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Annique · Rating 5 out of 5]

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 · Rating 5 out of 5]

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