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Not exactly a how-to guide
By Alan Katz and illustrated by David Catrow
They say the best way to get over something that makes you uncomfortable is to just say it. Right out in the open. Just, put it out there and let the world see it.
So, here goes: Poopy, pee-pee, potty, poop, wee-wee.
There. I feel so much better.
In On Top of the Potty, author Alan Katz and illustrator David Catrow continue their longtime collaboration to explore all things silly. Picasso had a blue period; these guys have a poop period.
All kidding aside, the songs in this book — tunes like Home on the Range and Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star — put potty training in a whole new light. You could go to the bookstore and get any number of tomes that exhort tiny ones to use the toilet like civilized adults. But what fun is that?
Better to go with this slim, colorful volume that includes kayaks, aliens and a giant elephant that (sadly) can’t fit into his potty chair. It’s a great way to encourage kids to use the bathroom like big people, but letting them stay silly for a little while longer.
An excerpt of this brand of potty humor, to be sung to the tune of “Take Me Out to the Ballgame”:
“Go do poop in the toilet
Go do pee in the bowl
Don’t have to wait till the whole thing’s filled
Just go a little, we’ll all be so thrilled
So please poop poop poop when you feel it
Just sit and let pee-pee flow
You’re so big
And the potty is
Where all big kids go!”
School Library Journal tut-tuts disapprovingly: “The team that created Don’t Say That Word ! (2007) and Take Me Out of the Bathtub (2001, both S & S) is back with their most vulgar effort yet. Billed as a hilarious book to help toddlers learn how to ‘get up and go,’ this rude primer delivers 14 new lyrics, accompanied by equally tasteless pictures, to popular tunes.”
– Chuck Bowen
On Top of the Potty (And Other Get-Up-and-Go Songs)
By Alan Katz and illustrated by David Catrow
Reading level: Baby-Preschool
Hardcover: 32 pages
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry
Released in March 2008
ISBN-10: 0689862156
ISBN-13: 978-0689862151
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