[.ca] Once Upon a Potty -- Girl (ISBN 1554072840)

Excellent Potty Learning Tool!!:
My husband and I have no clue as to how to teach potty training to our first child. So, we've spent much money on guides, books, videos, stories, etc. This book (and the video) have made a major break through. My daughter loves the story of Prudence and her potty! With her plethora of videos, she chooses this one to view, and wants to sit on the potty while watching it! Last night (which is why I decided to write a review), my daughter asked to use the potty, and she proceeded to poo. When she was all done, she proudly stood up and announced that she pooped on the potty just like Prudence! Finally we've made a connection!!

not so good:
my 2 year old just didn't like the book. she didn't stay interested in it at all. it was not helpful for us. it had too many words to read - maybe if you had a older child but for my young one it's just too long

down with baby talk:
This book is awful. Unless you want your child refering to her body parts as 'pee-pee' and saying things like 'wee-wee' and 'poo-poo' stay away from this book! Babies and children would not talk like this if adults did not teach them to! People who do so should hang their heads in shame. Teach your children the correct names for their body parts and they wont grow up so repressed. I couldn't even donate this book to charity for fear soome unsuspecting person might buy it, first I let my youngest use it as a teather and then I pitched it! (...)

Have I read this book? Only a THOUSAND times!!:
Got this book AGES ago for my older daughter, now almost 10. Well, my 18 month old daughter "discovered" it about a month ago - though she's not ready to start potty training just yet - she LOVES THIS BOOK! She asks us to read it at least 6-8 times a day, and when we aren't reading it to her, she looks through it on her own. She understands more and more what the whole issue is, and this book might be the "cause" of her potty training EARLY! How much does she love this book?? Two days ago, one of the pages fell out - and I can't figure out how to fix it - she has been upset and crying over the loss of this book since then - I have to get a new one (that's why I'm here!).

Compelling. Deep. Moving.:
I'm 27 and I cannot stop reading this book. Every time I get to the part about the having the "little hole for making Poo Poo" I cry. I mean, cause it's like soooo true. You know? Well, actually it's not, but it may as well be. I've read Nietzsche and a bunch of other "heady stuff" and I'm always left feeling a bit...well, empty. Those guys are missing something. Frankel, on the other hand, nails it. She has really spelled out for us what's truly important to us, as humans, and what isn't. Thank you, Alona. You have changed my life in such amazing ways.