The Potty Book - For Boys by Alyssa Satin Capucilli
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Book Reviews of The Potty Book - For Boys
Book Review: The Potty Book for Boys
Summary: 5 Stars
The Potty Book for Boys is a potty training books that looks to a little boy's eagerness to grow up. It starts off discussing all the things that the little one has learned and can now do that he couldn't as a baby. That, the next step is potty training.
This book has a kind of light sing songy feel to it. The little boy in the book has a teddy bear who he talks to and helps him while on the potty showing that potty training isn't scary. In fact, it's fun and a natural part of growing up.
I'm not sure if my little guy is convinced that potty training is fun. However, this book did fix one issue we had been having. The first potty book we read had a little girl sitting on the potty with her clothes on. My little one assumed that you needed pants on to use the potty. This created a great deal of confusion and anxiety. The Potty Book for Boys also shows the boy sitting on the potty with his clothes on but then shows him taking off his pants to actually use the potty.
Book Review: Really helped
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the only book we bought about potty training for our little boy. He's now long since potty trained, at a relatively early age, and this book deserves some of the credit. First, it's very attractively written and illustrated; our little boy liked it and requested it frequently when we were going through potty training. Second, it actually seemed to help him think about what was going on in potty training. We had already started sitting him on the pot and asking if he needed to go, etc., before getting this book, and he was sort of at a progress plateau, but when we got this book, it did seem to make something click and I think he made more noticeable progress after that. A month or two after we got the book he was to the point where we could take off the diapers entirely (at home). He seemed to get a big kick out of "Bye-bye pee! Bye-bye poop!" As you can see, it speaks in honest terms about pee and poop but isn't unnecessarily scatalogical.Book Review: very good, fun book.
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a great book for boys. It has cute pictures and incorporates fun in the process of potty training. This book mentions no body parts which may be bad but at least you can choose your own words. It also doesn't demonstrate the children fooling around with their potty such as 'wearing it like a hat'. It has nothing insulting and it keeps the bathroom in the bathroom and addresses accidents and washing hands in a fun manner (though the washing hands cold have been a bit more then a sentences as that is my son's favorite part of using the toilet.) It gently touches on feelings a child may have such as being conftorable in their diaper, or the annoyance of waititng for their diaper to be changed. It encourages children to feel proud. It calls wee-wee and poo-poo and a toilet a potty.Book Review: My son loves this book!
Summary: 5 Stars
I looked through 7 or 8 potty books before selecting this one. As mentioned in an earlier review, it covers many points in the potty training journey, such as bringing the potty home, trying it out, having an accident, getting support from parents, getting potty trained, calling grandma to tell her, picking out underwear, being proud of self. (Many potty books are very short and don't really cover that much.) It rhymes, is very positive, and offers the opportunity to read with a lot of expression. Also, in case it matters to you, it uses the words "potty," "pee," and "poop," for euphemisms. The book is a bit long, but hey, you're going to be in the bathroom for a while anyway! My son absolutely loves it, and it motivates him to go to the potty. Highly recommended.Book Review: Only at toilet time
Summary: 5 Stars
I too wish this book was a board book as it's taking a hammering. We keep it in the toilet and only bring it out when we're having a 'go'. I read it over and over again and am already getting sick of the sound of my own voice but the little guy loves it. In New Zealand we don't say dipers so I change the words around to nappy, wees and poos and even call the boy by my son's name (2 years)It keeps him focused on what we're doing. Good quality book all the same and I like another reviews idea of putting a sticker inside each time there is a successful deposit. Hasn't happened yet but we're not far off!