Review by Booklist Review
Great for toilet training, this picture book provides adults with a different way to sing and talk about that crucial time when toddlers move from diapers to underwear, potty chair, and toilet: If you gotta go do poopy / Please don't wait / If you gotta go do poopy / Potty's great. On each double-page spread, words are set to familiar tunes from Row, Row, Row Your Boat ( Scrub / Scrub / Scrub with soap / Each time that you poop ) to Take Me Out to the Ball Game ( Go do poop in the toilet ) so adults can sing the lines and point to the hilarious watercolor illustrations of bathroom scenarios. Of course, older siblings will snicker at the rhymes and puns they hear being read aloud. There may be a few objections to the humorous treatment of the subject, but lots of youngsters and their caregivers will have fun with this.--Rochman, Hazel Copyright 2008 Booklist
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Review by School Library Journal Review
PreS-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 such as this gem (sung to the tune of "London Bridge Is Falling Down"): "People poopy/Squooshy brown/Throughout town/King and clown/When they go, they flush it down/So long, poopy!" Yes, parents in the midst of the toilet-training wars need all the help they can get to inspire their tots to get past the diaper stage, but it's hard to imagine a loving parent serenading her child (to the tune of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame") with: "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!" So just who is the audience here, the parents, the potty-training set, or the primary-grade boys who haven't graduated from fart jokes yet?-Martha Simpson, Stratford Library Association, CT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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Review by Horn Book Review
My friend Mike / Just went poop / On his next-door-neighbor's stoop." Readers will never hear "This Old Man," among other classics, the same way again, thanks to this collection of bathroom-humor songs. The art features Catrow's perversely proportioned (sometimes partially dressed) humans confronting nature's call. Early elementary-age post-potty-trained readers will be this book's best audience. (c) Copyright 2010. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted. All rights reserved.
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