Even Superheroes Use the Potty

by Sara Crow, Adam Record (Illustrator)

Overview

"A potty-training book to go for."—Kirkus

It’s potty time for superheroes, firefighters, ninjas, soldiers, and KIDS!

Young ones will enjoy this funny, rhyming board book that teaches great bathroom habits with the promise that all their heroes use the potty too. Good potty habits can be celebrated each time kids put the lid down, flush, and wash their hands. Toilet-training harmony is just pages away!
 
And don’t miss the companion book—Even Superheroes Have to Sleep—to help restless kids settle in at night!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399559341
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	03/13/2018
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Lexile:	AD510L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 Months to 3 Years

About the Author

SARA CROW self-published her first book, Even Superheroes Have to Sleep, after a successful Kickstarter campaign. She followed it up with Even Superheroes Use the Potty. Sara and her husband reside in Seattle but make frequent trips to her home state, Montana. Her three young sons are the inspiration for her writing.

ADAM RECORD is the illustrator of Even Superheroes Have to Sleep and Even Superheroes Use the Potty. Adam started drawing as a kid while sitting in church, and feels blessed that he now gets to make his living as an artist. Learn more about Adam’s art at adamrecord.com.

Editorial Reviews

2017-10-16
Rhyming verse and cartoon illustrations assure toilet-training readers that everyone, but everyone, uses the potty.In this companion title to Even Superheroes Have to Sleep (2017), the cover art depicts a caped woman of color with brown skin and dark hair floating into a bathroom with a can-do look on her face, and then the front endpapers depict her soaring over a cityscape toward the page turn. Although she opens the book, she is not the protagonist. Instead, each double-page spread features a different character heading to the head. A firefighter, a ninja, a magician, a teacher, a zookeeper, a baker, a detective, a movie star, and a pilot are all depicted, and their characterizations present both men and women, white people and people of color, among them. Wordplay abounds from spread to spread to exploit mild scatological humor and offer a bevy of synonyms for the word "bathroom," but rhythm and cadence often stumble, which will likely make read-alouds falter—still, aesthetics are not usually the priority in a potty book. The book culminates with a group of children rushing off to the potty, heeding the closing admonition: "Always listen to your body. / Even children use the potty." An enclosed bathroom reward chart with stickers (only in the trade edition) might just prompt readers to head to the loo, too.A potty-training book to go for. (Picture book. 1-3)

Kirkus Reviews