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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.
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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.
Hilarious! My hubby just laughed when he saw the cover of the book. "Chugga-chugga Poooo-pooo" This is also my son's favorite potty book; mainly because there's a train. He also learned a new words and keeps repeating it = Giraffe.
This book is perfect for potty training. I just wish there was a copy available as a board book. I'm a little worried that he might tear one of the pages, so I took a star off.
SUMMARY: Boy uses his imagination while he is playing with his train and stuffed animals. All off a sudden he has to go potty. He has to board to the potty train. In order to get onto the train, they (the boy and his stuffed animals) must say bye bye to diapers. As they learn to ride the potty train, they pick-up underwear. Then they sit and wait until something happens. Boy successfully uses the potty. He finishes by cleaning his hands. Boy is proud of his accomplishment.
I guess I should have read the reviews before purchase. It is very weird and I'm not sure it conveys anything meaningful about potty use. One of the worst books I've seen in terms of helping kids understand the process of using the potty. There's essentially no message about listening to your body as the little boy and some animals just sit on potty for the majority of the book. At one point they get underwear and at another point they get all wet, but all while sitting on the "potty train." It's just weird. I'm still trying to decide if this book does more harm than good to the potty learning process.
I bought this book because of the star rating, but should have looked more closely at reviews (I was being lazy and trusting in the review system too much). This book is pure allegory, and while I can attempt to review the merits of the allegory, it is completely beside the point. Children do not begin to understand allegory until at least age 7, and its many metaphors are far beyond the comprehension of my 2 year old. I did give it an extra star because my train-loving 2 year old actually likes this book the best out of all of his potty books: Because of the train, and the animals. We talk about the pictures when we "read" it, but he hasn't made any connection to the use of the potty. It is more confusing than helpful in that regard.
I should have written this review 3 1/2 years ago but better late than never. I owe this book credit for finally getting my son fully potty trained. I was literally training him for a year and a half. I definitely started too soon. We finally got to the point of always staying dry and ways going to pee on the potty. But he refused to poop on the potty. He was scared to. I got this book because he loved trains and right after he ran to the potty and pooped for the first time. He's been fully trained ever since. Now I am trying to train my daughter who is 2 1/2. She pees on the potty but no poop yet. We have read this to her and haven't had the same luck as him but she loves this book. Hoping it will eventually set into her as well. Big thank you to the author. Even if it doesn't work for you it is. A great colorful fun story book that I can't imagine any toddler wouldn't love.
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