Oh No, Gotta Go #2 by Susan Middletown Elya, illustrated by Lynn Avril
Rating: 4 stars
Yup, there's a sequel to Oh No Gotta Go, the cute story of a little girl who drinks too much juice and suddenly has to go to the bathroom NOW. When I saw there was a second book, I was curious if it was just another situation in which she'd have to pee or if, as the book hints, this one wasn't about pee but about poop.
It's about poop!
Lorelei chuckled the whole time through this book, and while there's a lot of Spanish that Lorelei, who thinks she's already fluent, liked, it was the slang and easy innuendos that I liked teaching her through this book. We don't say "#1" and "#2" in our house, but it's definitely a good thing to know. Bathroom cultural literacy, if you will. Ha! As her stomach gurgles and churns, there's a picture of a volcano(cleverly, the street that they're walking next to is turned into a lava-gurgling, about-to-erupt volcano), so it was fun to tell Lorelei that the author and illustrator are saying that her stomach is like a volcano and she needs to sit on the potty before she explodes in a less desirable place.
This might be a little too much potty talk for your family, but we really liked it.
(By the way, in case you were worried, she makes it.)
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