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Title: Sam's Potty by Barbro Lindgren ISBN: 0-688-06603-8 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 15 August, 1986 Format: Board book Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: A Surprise Hit
Comment: Barbro Lindgren offers bare-bones text and straighforward drawings in a simple story of Sam, Doggie and his new potty. Its simplicity reminded me of the classic Dick and Jane readers of long ago. In the competitive potty book market rich with rhyme, color - even movable parts - I mistakenly thought that Sam's Potty would be quickly dismissed. But my girls liked it! One scene in which Doggie unravels ribbons of toilet paper so Sam can wipe is hilarious.
After reading over two dozen potty books, I regard Sam's Potty as more entertaining than educational. Read it for fun! Then when you want to introduce the functional aspects of the toilet training process, try these more instructional potty books: The Potty Book for Girls by Alyssa Satin Capucilli or What To Expect When You Use the Potty by Heidi Murkoff.
Rating: 5
Summary: Adventures with lovable Sam
Comment: These books are great for your littlest ones! The text in the Sam books are very simple, as they ought to be for very young children, but can easily be elaborated on by the adult reading aloud to little ones. I don't agree with the previous reviewer who found the pictures "rough and unengaging" - unengaging is the farthest description I could personally think of! The facial expressions are wonderful, and the pictures carry so much meaning and action in themselves, and they are tailored to very young children - the perspective stays the same, proportions are right etc so that little ones can easily understand the pictures and follow the events there.
In all their simplicity, these are brilliant little books, with just the right dose of adventure and fun in familiar settings for the youngest readers.
On a side note, the Sam books created a stir when they were first published in Sweden close to 20 years ago. They were written in "kids' speak", just the way our little ones speak, which some people protested against and claimed proper sentences were needed. Barbro Lindgren's answer was to publish the next one still written in kids' speak - with "translations" into proper adult language at the bottom of the page! The English versions are however written in proper sentences.
All in all, these books are great for starting a life-time love of reading.
Rating: 1
Summary: Good effort - but not quite there
Comment: These translated Swedish books have a simple text with picture format. The pages are hard to turn for me let alone the little one, and the pictures are rough and unengaging. I am staying away from all of the Sam's titles.
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Title: Sam's Ball by Barbro Lindgren ISBN: 0688023592 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 22 August, 1983 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sam's Teddy Bear by Barbro Lindgren ISBN: 0688012701 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Sam's Cookie by Barbro Lindgren ISBN: 0688012671 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 01 August, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Where's Sam?: A Lift-The-Flap Book by Yves Got ISBN: 0811837645 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Sam's Busy Day by Yves Got ISBN: 0811840743 Publisher: Chronicle Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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