Customer Reviews

A Potty for Me!: A Lift-the-Flap Instruction Manual

5 star:		(77)
4 star:		(24)
3 star:		(16)
2 star:		(11)
1 star:		(10)

 

 

I bought this book along with two others for my 18 month old simply to introduce the concept of the potty to her. The first book I bought was called My First Potty Book and it was pretty bad. The second one I bought was Once Upon a Potty which is excellent, but a little too advanced for my daughter. Then I bought A Potty for Me which was perfect. The pictures are big and colorful and the amount of text on each page is perfect for a short attention spanned little girl, not to mention the story is very sweet and well written. The pacing is just right. It doesn't simply tell you how to use a potty, but goes into the anxiety a child might have as well as the trying and geting it wrong and the practicing and then the trying and getting it right.

My daughter asks me to read this book to her over and over again, every night. As for the lift the flap concept, it's not exactly what you would expect. It's more like a page that folds out to another page. Picture a storybook with a centerfold on each page. I guess that's the easiest way of describing it. That little piece of interaction helps keep the little ones' attention.

This is an excellent book and I highly recommend it. I don't think you'll be disappointed.

This is pretty cute...especially if you love Karen Katz illustrations! I took the idea of wrapping our 2 year old's potty chair like a present so she could relate to the beginning of the book :) However, I found a few phrases to contradict the goal...so I change some of the words. Like, instead of saying "this potty's not for me" I say "the potty waits for me" and instead of "I still don't think I can" I say "I wonder if I can" just to take the negative implication out. I understand why she wrote it like that...to embrace the rollercoaster experience of potty training and it IS true. However, I didn't want to take a chance that our head strong daughter would go around saying "the potty's not for me" as it's already her tendency to put up a fight!

Let me first mention that I am a huge fan of Karen Katz's books. However, this book was a big disappointment. Instead of teaching the child how to use the potty, the story contradicts using the potty. The child in the book spends most of the time rejecting the potty. This book basically confused my child and I stop reading it. The illustrations are great, but the story indicates that this particular child is not ready to use the potty. The lack of encouragement and motivation of potty training in this story is not great at all.

I'm giving this book 3 stars because my daughter has always loved Karen Katz books and this one is no exception. She also shows interest in using the potty after we read it. However. I feel like the book is confusing to her and sends a mixed message because it spends so many pages talking about how the child in the story has no interest in the potty or tries to use the potty unsuccessfully before she finally has success. Once. I realize that those aspects happen in real life but I think it's too much for a 2-year-old to follow along with the concept. She needs a more simple, clear message: sit on the potty, use it, hooray!

We're "late E.C." training my 12 month old daughter and were looking for a board book about the potty that she wouldn't damage. The pictures in this book are great and she loves to look at them. But 99% of the text is about how the child isn't ready, doesn't think he/she can do it, or about having an accident and how that's "o.k." It's actually so negative that I don't read it to her, we just look at the pictures. It seems to me that when you are training an older child there are more emotional issues involved so for that group maybe this would be a great buy. But we've only been putting my daughter on the potty for the last 2 weeks and she started going on the second day we tried it. So far she's regularly going twice a day without any emotional tug of war, stickers or "potty dance" of any kind. Sitting on the potty is just a regular part of her routine, like eating snack or bath time. I don't want her to learn that it is any kind of big deal, or has any negative emotions associated with it.

I think that "Once upon a Potty" is a much more positive book. But sadly it is fairly wordy so we have to skip a lot. Wish there was a better option.

My son (2 years) has loved this book for months. In fact, our family has memorized it now, we have read it so many times. I like how it written on a child's level and emphasized that the most important part of the whole potty learning process is that the child feel good about his/her accomplishments!

Well we have a two year old that we are hoping to get potty trained very soon. He has his own potty...he knows how to sit on it and what it's used for. Now it's all about getting him to know when to use it. Karen Katz has been putting out wonderful books for babies and toddlers for so long that she was the natural choice when we were looking for a fun book to read about potty training.

With interactive gatefold flaps, this book addresses the perennial toddler issue of potty training. In a very realistic, child-appealing text, it describes how a gender-neutral toddler struggles to learn how to use the potty. As with her other books Karen has illustrated this lift the flap book with fun, colorful pictures that kids relate so well to. My son really gets a kick out of seeing the child sitting on the potty. Hopefully it will payoff very soon. Highly recommended!

My daughter loves Karen Katz's books. And this has been added to her list of favorites. She is 18 months old and I purchased it to introduce her to the concept of potty training (other than the coming into the bathroom with mommy technique). She enjoys the illustration and the stories and I've found that after a couple of readings, she actually wanted to sit on her own potty for an extended period of time. Before the book it was a 2 second sit.

I'm very pleased with this book.

After reading the reviews, we ordered this book for our two-year-old daughter. When it came, I paged through it and was horrified to see a sentence beginning "Me and bunny sit awhile"! I'm no stickler for grammar, but why reinforce such an ignorant-sounding error as this in a children's book? Kids at that age unconsciously absorb grammar and syntax from the examples they encounter. In this world of text-speak and functionally illiterate high-school graduates, I'm disappointed that Ms. Katz chose to model poor grammar skills this way.

The story/plot is good; but that doesn't overcome the construction of the book itself. The pages are the thickness of cardstock. This book lasted one week before my 2 year old son tore a page out. The flaps are not your typical "lift the flap". Rather, the pages fold out (think magazine centerfold). My son likes the fold out feature; but again, it's just not durable enough for a toddler who is anxious to flip through the book. Also, the flaps aren't cut to the proper size; so when they are folded back into the book, if not placed perfectly, the book gets "bound up". I recommend you get a sturdy board book. Skip this one.