Even Firefighters Go to the Potty: A Potty Training Lift-the-Flap Story

by Wendy Wax, Naomi Wax, Stephen Gilpin (Illustrator)

Overview

Clang! Clang! Clang! The fire truck is pulling out of the station. But wait! Where is the firefighter going? To the potty! Even firefighters go to the potty!

Toddlers are uneasy about toilet training. And in most cases, even if they know they have to go, sometimes they are too busy to bother. In this hilarious gate-fold story, each person—from a firefighter on the way to answer a fire alarm to a zoo keeper on the way to feed the polar bears—stops what they are doing to go to the potty. With humor and no pedantics, toddlers learn that everybody uses the potty.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416927204
Publisher:	Little Simon
Publication date:	10/14/2008
Pages:	22
Sales rank:	295,309
Product dimensions:	7.68(w) x 8.02(h) x 0.56(d)
Age Range:	2 - 5 Years

About the Author

Wendy Wax has written many children’s books, including City Witch, Country Switch; Even Firefighters Go to the Potty; Clara the Klutz; Bus to Booville; and Even Princesses Go to the Potty. Wendy is also an editor and collage artist.

Naomi Wax has taught creative writing in after-school programs at the Fieldston and Ethical Culture Schools. She is co author of Cool Women: the Thinking Girl’s Guide to the Hippest Women in History, which was adapted for the WE Network by Debbie Allen. She lives in New York City.

Stephen Gilpin graduated from the NYC School of Visual Arts where he studied painting and cartooning. He is the illustrator of the Who Shrunk Daniel Funk series and The Extraordinary Adventures of Ordinary Boy series. Stephen currently lives in Hiawatha, Kansas. Visit him at SGilpin.com.

Editorial Reviews

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This lift-the-flap book reinforces that everyone, everywhere, regardless of what they may do professionally, must take the time to stop and "go to the potty." Each scenario stretches over one and a half pages with the remaining space devoted to a flap (decorated as a restroom door) to open. In each case, readers are presented with activity in progress. However, a key worker is missing: "The fire alarm is ringing! The fire truck needs to go. But where did the firefighter who drives the truck go?" Open the door, and thus intrude upon the missing adult who has just recently used, or in some cases still is sitting on, the toilet. Readers visit the police station, construction site, doctor's office, baseball field, zoo, and more to discover again and again that important people are in the restroom. The bright, glossy cartoon drawings contain small details (the astronaut has toilet paper stuck to his space boot and the train engineer has train cars on his boxer shorts) that add to the goofiness and help relieve tension for a topic that can be embarrassing. Unfortunately, the brief text becomes overly repetitive, but the demand for books on the topic makes this a slight, albeit silly, addition to most collections.-Laura Butler, Mount Laurel Library, NJ

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