Now that the preschooler knows that the postman brings goodies for him, I let him open up the parcel containing this book for review.
He was really excited (although he pointed out that the parcel didn’t have his name on it!) and LOVED the book cover, which was in his favourite purple 
He immediately clambered onto my lap and ordered Mummy to: “READ!!!”. Well, Mummy (who’s very particular about fonts) loves the handwriting-styled font the author and illustrator chose.
The race car in Ferdinand’s dream bubble scored another point with the boy and I could read through the story easily as “Ferdinand Uses the Potty” is written in a simple rhyming scheme.
Since the boy is toilet trained for the day, he can identify with the toilet, the word “pee pee” and having a tummy ache. However, the language used was slightly above his age level and also, the lack of descriptive words had him slightly puzzled…
Nevertheless, the storyline kept him hooked to the book from start to the end. For this, I think the author and illustator have down an excellent job.
At the end of the story, the boy turned to me and we had this conversation,
“What happened to the frog?”
“He went to pee.”
“Where? In the toilet? Show me…”
I showed him the page where the frog leaps up high above the toilet but it’s clear neither of us could see the frog doing the deed.
Because I’d found “The Potty Book for Boys by Allysa Satin Capucilli and Dorothy Scott useful for his potty training, perhaps the team may want to make it a bit more obvious what Ferdinand the frog is doing in the toilet?
“Ferdinand Uses the Potty” has bright and colourful illustrations with a flowing storyline – check out the book yourself here
“Are You There God? It’s Me Margaret” was in the reading list of the young girl from the international school I was coaching for English.
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, he’s declared himself as “Batman”. In jest, I said that I was “Catwoman” and he found that really funny! I guess poor Dad is Robin LOL
