Review by Publisher's Weekly Review
Riffing on the song "Skip to My Lou," Lloyd-Jones (The House That's Your Home) and Jeram (Guess How Much I Love You) suggest that using the bathroom is an event worth celebrating, as various creatures skip and prance their way to a "potty party." A rabbit gets things started, but "Bunny's not the only one/ skipping to the loo./ Look who else wants their potty!/ Quite a few..." The following pages are nothing short of a potty parade as kangaroos, a dodo, a frog on a scooter, a tutu-wearing elephant, an iguanalike monster, and others romp through the woods with one thing on their minds. Jeram's characteristically delicate ink-and-watercolor artwork adds gentle humor throughout (at one point, a mouse unspools a roll of toilet paper like it's a red carpet), and eventually the animals set up their chamber pots and training toilets in a clearing. An embedded mirror invites readers to join in: "Wait! Isn't someone missing? I wonder... is it you?" Leaving the mechanics of using the potty to concerned adults, Lloyd-Jones's singsong rhymes instead establish an "everyone's doing it" aura of excitement as a means of encouragement. Ages 2-5. (Mar.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.
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Review by Horn Book Review
Punning on the old children's song, this book of silly rhymes shows a group of animal friends skipping joyfully on the way to the potty (a.k.a. the "loo" in British English). The saccharine text embraces the fact that "loo" rhymes with "poo." The playful ink and watercolor illustrations end with a mirror to encourage reader participation in the potty fun. (c) Copyright 2017. The Horn Book, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
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