Once Upon a Potty--Boy

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This Hardcover Book item from HarperFestival was reviewed on 24-Oct-2008.

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1) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival. My Son loves this book. We had gotten the Book for girls at a yard sale and he constantly looked at that book. We love the one for boys just as much. He seems to relate to this book. He shows me the page and tells me all about it while he sits on the potty.¤

2) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival. I really enjoy reading "Once Upon A Potty" to my kids. It´s rather direct and features gender-specific illustrations of the "parts" for boys and girls. This particular book features the male anatomy of little Joshua. Joshua´s story gives children the confidence to sit and wait for something to happen, even if it doesn´t feel like something will occur.

I personally don´t consider this book a good teaching tool for potty training. While it´s a fun story and does get rather specific about body parts, it doesn´t teach little boys how to stand when urinating. As others have stated, the illustrated potty is a "wee" bit outdated as well.

Still, kids will have fun with this book and I do mildly recommend it. Some parents might think that terms like wee-wee, poo-poo and pee-pee are too childish for their children, but I think they´re just fine for the little ones.¤

3) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival. Once Upon a Potty -- Boy
This book is a classic! It is well written and geared toward little boys and their specific body parts related to potty training. I think it helps to teach our son about his body and elimination in an easy and simple way.¤

4) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival. I don´t know if any one book actually helped get my son to potty train. I think it helped put the idea into his head though. Potty training is more difficult than I ever imagined, but I think we´re getting there. I recommend this book though. Kind of odd drawings with pictures of the boy´s rear end, but I guess kid´s need to see it. Maybe.¤

5) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival. Do not purchase this book. I looked for a few books to get my son excited about potty training. I don´t consider myself to be an ultra conservative type, but after the first few pages I was appalled. I´ve read this book to my son once. Even my 10 year old daughter was disgusted by the book when she heard me reading it to my son.

This book did not catch my son´s attention, for many reasons - I am sure. The illustrations were very bland. The book reads more like a textbook (with the exclusion of proper names for body parts). I think the author was more worried about being gramatically correct then having a fun to read book with an enticing cadence. One last thing... How can we expect our child to relate to Joshua´s potty experience when his potty looks more like a bowl, large planter or old school pitcher?¤

6) Hardcover Book Once Upon a Potty--Boy by HarperFestival.

This best-selling book-and-doll package includes a newly designed Joshua or Prudence doll and potty, paired with the Once Upon a Potty picture book.

Just like you, Joshua has a body, and this body has many nice and useful parts:
A head for thinking
Eyes for seeing
Ears for hearing
A mouth to talk and eat with
Hands for playing
A pee-pee for making Wee-Wee
Legs for walking and running
A bottom for sitting and in it a little hole for making Poo-Poo

Dear Fellow-Parents,

Once Upon a Potty is best used as a companion volume to a child´s new potty. I wrote this book when my own child was toilet training to help him better understand the process. My son was encouraged and excited by this story. It motivated him to make the developmental leap from diaper to potty.

Learning to use the potty is often a lengthy process, taxing the patience of both parent and child. When success finally comes--and it should come in its own good time, without undue pressure or haste--it enhances the child´s confidence and pride. He has taken another step toward independence. He sat on the potty as a little child and got up feeling ten-feet tall.

It´s one small step for mankind, but a giant one for your family.

Love,
Alona

Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 21-Nov-2008, 0694013870038332164152, 550-200-350-700-270-560-4X1-BCB-8

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