The Potty Train is coming! All aboard!
Time to say good-bye to diapers and take the journey to Underpants Station.
Are you ready? Let's chug away on the Potty Train!
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David Hochman is a journalist whose articles have been published in the New York Times, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly and Forbes. Upon graduating from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, he won the prestigious Pultizer Travelling Fellowship, which he used to visit and write about Australia and New Zealand.
Ruth Kennison has been a travel writer and theater critic, and now works as a professional organizer. This is David and Ruth's first children's book. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
Derek Anderson is the bestselling artist and cocreator of the Little Quack series. He is also the talent behind Gladys Goes Out to Lunch and Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale. He and his wife Cheryl reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visit him at DerekAnderson.net.
Ruth Kennison has been a travel writer and theater critic, and now works as a professional organizer. This is David and Ruth's first children's book. They live in Los Angeles with their son.
Derek Anderson is the bestselling artist and cocreator of the Little Quack series. He is also the talent behind Gladys Goes Out to Lunch and Over the River: A Turkey’s Tale. He and his wife Cheryl reside in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Visit him at DerekAnderson.net.
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113 of 121 people found the following review helpful
By Chris Bryson
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I should start by saying my daughter loves this book. But it isn't helping her understand a damn thing about the potty, and in fact seems to be setting up rather bizarre expectations about what is possible and achievable on the toilet. Two main problems:
1) First of all, the text really doesn't make any sense. I don't mean to get all English-major on it, but the metaphors are wholly inconsistent. Kids are literalists. This book is a poorly-conceived metaphor. Not a good combo. Climb aboard the potty train = sit on the potty, right? So what do we make of the fact that "soon you'll be riding the potty train all night"? Given the way the metaphor has been set up, this would imply that soon, the child to whom the book is addressed will be sitting all night on the toilet. I find that a worrisome threat rather than something to look forward to. If you ride the potty train, you will be stricken with dysentery?
2) The pictures are as nonsensical as the text. When the child poops ("chugga-chugga Poo poo" --this is, apparently, the supreme goal of sitting on the potty), they are to wash hands. Great. But the picture is of the child being sprayed with water, and his companions, an elephant and a giraffe, are being sprayed with water. The giraffe is being sprayed in the face. What did the giraffe do to require a face wash? The accompanying text reads "it feels good to be clean and dry." Dry? So we soak ourselves? Other bizarre and alarming pictures include that accompanying the text "the potty train keeps chugging along", illustrated by the train on a track leading into what appears to be a giant twisty sewer pipe. The boy on the potty looks thrilled, but the giraffe looks suitably alarmed. I try to skip over this one so my child doesn't dwell on the looming dark tunnel of waste into which her potty training experience will inevitably lead her.
Today I tried to explain the metaphor to my child. "You're sitting on the potty train." To which she replied, with a wistful note in her voice, "no. I'm just sitting on the potty." Oh, the disappointment.
Seriously. Avoid this book. if your child decides to like it and think about it, it may just derail your "potty train." There are better ones out there.
1) First of all, the text really doesn't make any sense. I don't mean to get all English-major on it, but the metaphors are wholly inconsistent. Kids are literalists. This book is a poorly-conceived metaphor. Not a good combo. Climb aboard the potty train = sit on the potty, right? So what do we make of the fact that "soon you'll be riding the potty train all night"? Given the way the metaphor has been set up, this would imply that soon, the child to whom the book is addressed will be sitting all night on the toilet. I find that a worrisome threat rather than something to look forward to. If you ride the potty train, you will be stricken with dysentery?
2) The pictures are as nonsensical as the text. When the child poops ("chugga-chugga Poo poo" --this is, apparently, the supreme goal of sitting on the potty), they are to wash hands. Great. But the picture is of the child being sprayed with water, and his companions, an elephant and a giraffe, are being sprayed with water. The giraffe is being sprayed in the face. What did the giraffe do to require a face wash? The accompanying text reads "it feels good to be clean and dry." Dry? So we soak ourselves? Other bizarre and alarming pictures include that accompanying the text "the potty train keeps chugging along", illustrated by the train on a track leading into what appears to be a giant twisty sewer pipe. The boy on the potty looks thrilled, but the giraffe looks suitably alarmed. I try to skip over this one so my child doesn't dwell on the looming dark tunnel of waste into which her potty training experience will inevitably lead her.
Today I tried to explain the metaphor to my child. "You're sitting on the potty train." To which she replied, with a wistful note in her voice, "no. I'm just sitting on the potty." Oh, the disappointment.
Seriously. Avoid this book. if your child decides to like it and think about it, it may just derail your "potty train." There are better ones out there.
36 of 39 people found the following review helpful
By K. W. Day
Format:Hardcover
Our son loves trains, and we bought a couple potty books to help him begin to understand about using the potty. He really enjoyed this one and wanted to read it over and over. The pictures are lovely, but the content of the book is entirely metaphorical - it's all about a boy learing to "ride the potty train", with little if any content about how to actually use a potty. when it came time to wean him off of diapers, our son was confused and a little scared - he was afraid that "the potty train will go too fast.". We had to explain that it's not really a train, and won't move.
So although it gets a couple stars for creativity and good pictures, it just was not a helpful to us for actual potty training.
So although it gets a couple stars for creativity and good pictures, it just was not a helpful to us for actual potty training.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I just picked up a copy of this book--it is terrific! We are reading it with our almost 2-yr old son in the hope that it will get him excited about potty training. He now runs around the house yelling, "chugga poo poo!" It's the first book about the topic that I've seen that is entertaining for the kids as well as the parents. If only we had this book when our older son was potty training.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cute potty training book.
This is a cute book for little boys learning about potty training. The illustrations are great. The "potty train" is a cute concept.
Published 16 days ago by EC Mommy
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining But Not Helpful
My son loves trains and is not at all interested in the potty so I thought we'd give this book a shot. Read more
Published 1 month ago by ekm8224
5.0 out of 5 stars
Way to cute
This is a very good potty training book, when it is time to go when hop on the potty train and chugga chugga to the bathroom.
Published 1 month ago by Martha Stewart
4.0 out of 5 stars
good for boys
My son liked this book because he loves trains... I don't think that it helped with potty training but it might help for some kids
Published 1 month ago by margo
4.0 out of 5 stars
Cute story
Unfortunately my three year old grandson didn't get the point of the book. But he loved the pictures and the fact it was about a train. Read more
Published 1 month ago by POLISH
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chugga Chugga Poo Poo!
Great book to read while trying to potty train your child. My son has nearly every word of this book memorized and it really gets him excited about learning to use the potty and... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Julia Beckley
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fun Perspective
My 2 yr old boy has shown very little interest in potty training so I decided to try & find some books that might draw his attention to the task at hand. Read more
Published 3 months ago by 1st Time Momma in Boise
2.0 out of 5 stars
Boring and pointless
I would not recommend this book. It does not explain the potty and uses phrasing that an adult would understand but not a child ("sometimes you might get off track"). Read more
Published 4 months ago by Isla_Avalon
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great illustrations!
Great series of books! Love the drawings! I would recommend these to anyone with small children. They are easy
to follow and keeps the little one's interest!
to follow and keeps the little one's interest!
Published 4 months ago by cyellett
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love it!
Got this for my 2 year old as a gift and I can't wait to see his face when he opens it.
Published 5 months ago by Amanda Magee
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