With interactive gatefold flaps, Karne Katz addresses a perennial toddler issue - potty training. In a very realistic, child-appealing text, Katz describes how a gender-neutral toddler struggles to learn how to use the potty.
Told in first-person narrative, A Potty For Me! reads like a child telling their friend all about the curiosity, frustrations, and excitement of learning to use the potty. The brightly colored pages filled with familiar patterns of plaid and polka dots are fun and engaging. The words are printed large on solid colored pages which surround the pictures when the flaps are folded out. This encourages the primary focus to be on the pictures, while the words can still clearly be viewed.
Expect your child to reach out and want to help open the flaps, perhaps giggling at the pictures beneath. The book consists of many sound effects that you and your little one can say together while reading like, "Uh-oh," "Ooh-hoo," and "whoosh!" Kratz encourages readers to be persistent when learning to use the potty, but there is no pressure if they would rather go out and play or if it is just not the right time yet. The narrator takes several tries before successfully using the potty. This is a great way to introduce the idea of potty training to your child or grandchild and encourage questions, while making it seem easy and fun.
When my friend Kevin was learning to use the potty, he liked to take this book into the bathroom with him and pretend to read it while waited on the potty for something to happen. He mimicked the pictures in the book - waiting and waiting and waiting - until one day it worked for him. Just like in the book, I gave him a big hug and told him he should be proud.
-- Audra
Karen Katz is THE best. We have several Karen Katz books and she always puts emphasis on love and care. This book is different than all our other Karen Katz books, it has interactive gatefold flaps. Yes the flaps are fun, and great for toddlers fine motor skill, but this book focus' on a different issue...the potty!
Ahh yes, Potty Training is such a joy. When we started out potty training I thought things we're going great and then it just became mute and now we are working harder than ever to get her potty trained! This book DID help her. In fact this book is all about the child getting their very own potty, so I pulled out my daughters potty that she hasn't even tried to use for some time and all the sudden she was interested!
Katz also does a wonderful job describing how a gender-neutral toddler struggles to learn how to use the potty by thinking up excuses not to use it, etc. Yes. This book is awesome, I would strongly suggest getting this book for your toddler and THEN introducing their little potty as a surprise or gift.
--Candice, Cumming, GA