The New Potty (Look-Look) [Paperback]

Mercer Mayer (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Look-Look

Little Critter sure knows how to be a good big brother! He even helps his little sister learn how to use the new potty.

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Little Critter sure knows how to be a good big brother! He even helps his little sister learn how to use the new potty. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Mercer Mayer has been writing and illustrating children’s books for over 35 years. He began the popular Little Critter series nearly 30 years ago and titled the first book Just for You. His wife, Gina, has been co-writing the series since the early 1990s. The books in this series address the major issues of growing up through humorous storytelling. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 24 pages
• Publisher: Golden Books (February 15, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0307115232
• ISBN-13: 978-0307115232
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 5.3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,627,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Potty a Kid Favorite, January 4, 2000

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Lisa Dael (Athens, OH) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Potty (Look-Look) (Paperback)

My son loves this book! We actually now have two - one for home and one when he travels to the sitter or grandparents' house, etc. The picures are colorful and attract your immediately. The story is simple and gets the whole family involved in the potty training process. It is very positive and easy to understand so little ones can follow the meaning. I (and my son) highly recommend it. My son feels it is a 'must read' when going to the potty.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The New Potty, May 2, 2000

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Carol Dinsmoore (Alabama) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The New Potty (Look-Look) (Paperback)

What a great learning tool! My daughter loves this book. She is successfully potty trained! Yeepee! This book describes everything, even the time when purchasing the potty chair. It even describes "accidents", which let her know that they will happen and that it is OK. I love the way the entire family helps with the potty training. This will be very helpful when my younger child starts potty training! Great book! Good luck!

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed!, August 23, 2010

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R. Loose (Black Hills, SD) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The New Potty (Little Critter) (Look-Look) (Paperback)

Do yourself a favor and check this book out from the library before you decide to buy. I grew up with Little Critter books and we've been reading them to our 2 year old most of his life. He just loves them! However, we just got The New Potty and I am not impressed. Truth be told, I don't like most of the Gina Mayer/Mercer Mayer collabs. The illustrations are not as well done and the stories come off as either preachy or a bad attitude. In this particular book, we have Little Critter narrating about his little sister's experiences learning the potty. It's full of comments about how it's "weird" that sister practices sitting on the potty while watching TV, how he doesn't think she looks any cuter than him, and how he thinks she still acts like a baby, even when Mom and Dad say she's a big girl now once she's successfully using the potty. Sorry, none of that is helpful in giving my son a positive potty-learning experience. He does not have any siblings to understand the sibling-rivalry comments, and I highly doubt at age 2 he would grasp them even if he did. I don't need him thinking he's "weird" for practicing sitting on the potty wherever he feels like. And I don't need him getting the idea that even once he masters this big step in growing up, someone might still think he's just a baby. We're going to have to skip over many of the lines or make up something different when we read him this book.
I wish Mercer had done a potty book long ago, on his own. His style of effortless, entertaining storytelling, while gently teaching life lessons, is sadly missing from these later books.