I Want My Potty! (Little Princess)

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Episode Tagline: The book "I Want My Potty" has the Princess saying the title a lot but it also has "the potty's the place", which highlights the fact that it's about her learning to use the potty. In "I Want Baked Beans", the Princess wants to have baked beans for lunch instead of the pasta that's on offer. The King tries getting her to eat it by pretending the spoon is a plane, but she says, "I'm too old for that game." Injured Limb Episode: In "I Want to Go to the Fair", the Princess is not allowed to go to the fair because she sprained her ankle, so the Queen makes a pretend fair.

In "I Want My Potty", the Princess originally thought the potty was worse than nappies, but eventually likes it.

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At the end of "I Don't Want a Cold", the Princess is happy, yet the adults might have caught her cold and the picnic is off. When the Princess steals a cake in "I Can Keep a Secret", she says it's for Gilbert. Later discussed with "I could say it wasn't me [who told the secret], but I'm the only one who knew". Speaking of the very familiar inspiration behind Little Princess, Tony Ross has said, “Cleanliness was secondary to enjoyment of life for my daughter, and for Little Princess. When she wasborn, my little daughter Alex was Little Princess. She behaved like her, even looked like her, although shehates to be reminded of that, now she is in her forties. So, I was simply drawing what I knew, and loved.” Birthday Episode: It's the General's birthday in "I Want to Cook" and the Princess's birthday in "I Want a Surprise". Big Word Shout: In addition to her Big No moments and when she's calling someone, "I Don't Want Nits", when the Princess's head is itchy and the Maid suggests that she has nits and explains what lice are, the Princess shouts out "BUGS!!".

Transformation at the Speed of Plot: In "Can I Keep It?", Little Princess's tadpole is shown to have transformed into a frog overnight and visually in the space of about 10-15 seconds. When Little Princess awakes, she believes that the awful creature, which she doesn't recognize as a frog, has eaten her "Taddy." In real life, tadpoles slowly grow legs and gain frog-like features. Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks. Home > Silence of Sadness: In "I Want to Go to the Fair", the Princess is sulking about not being able to go to the fair due to her injured foot. Until she cheers up, she doesn't say much beyond "[activity the Queen suggested] is boring" and one-word sentences.

First Day of School Episode: "I Don't Want to Go to School" focuses on Princess's first day of preschool. Insomnia Episode: A variation in "I Don't Want to Go to Bed". At first the Princess is simply not sleepy, then she wants to sleep but cannot due to first thinking a monster is in her room, then being lonely, then being kept awake with the maid's snoring.

Pan from the Sky" Beginning: One episode begins in the sky with a closeup of the flag and the narrator notes, "The flag's up; that means the family is at home". Loud Sleeper Gag: In "I Don't Want to Go to Bed", the Princess gets lonely in the middle of the night, so the Maid is sent to bunk with her, but she snores, keeping the Princess awake. After a few failed attempts to get the Maid to stop snoring, the Princess goes to sleep in the pets' basket. Relax-o-Vision: In "I Want to Recycle," Princess drops a lollipop on the grass after a fly lands on it, but declares she's still going to eat it because to not do so would be wasteful. She tells the narrator, however, that he doesn't have to watch. He replies that he won't and the "camera" pans to a view of a bluebird splashing in a birdbath with relaxing music playing until Princess is all done.Mistaken for Own Murderer: In "Can I Keep It?", Taddy grows into a frog and the next morning, Princess thinks that "a horrible animal has eaten Taddy and it's still in the bowl!".

Literal-Minded: When the Princess is told she's in charge of combing, she thinks that she's in charge of combing everyone's hair. TVTropes is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. This book is ideal for younger children learning how to use the potty and go to the toilet independently. The book allows the reader to use a variety of voices and actions to match the desperate staff and residents of the castle to rush to the princess in time.Disease-Prevention Aesop: In "I Don't Want to Wash My Hands", the Maid tells the Princess to wash her hands at certain intervals because of "germs and nasties", which she claims live "in the dirties and on the animals and in the sneezes". Elvis Impersonator: The Prime Minister's costume in "I Want to Dress Up" is this, complete with an awful attempt at "All Shook Up." Sleepyhead: Downplayed for the King and Puss, who do take a lot of naps, but they don't seem to always be tired.