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🚽 Potty training, made theirs · ages 2–4

The potty training book starring your child — and their favourite toy

your child teaches Bunny to use the potty

Their own toy learns the potty. Your child teaches it. Both painted from your photos. Your child, painted from one photo — their face, their hair, their own clothes. Type their name and watch the book become theirs.

  • Free painted preview before you pay a penny
  • Rhyming verse · 13 painted spreads
  • A human checks every page · printed in Britain
  • £36.98 hardcover, UK delivery free · or £6.99 ebook
Painted sample cover — Maja teaches Bunny to use the potty
Made especially for Maja
The photo the book is painted from
The photo we painted Maja from
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4 little stitches · about 60 seconds
2 · The story says…
3 · One clear photo of their face
One clear photo of their face This is the whole trick. Close up, good light, looking at the camera — no hat, no sunglasses, nothing in front of the face.
A phone photo is perfect · used only to paint the book, then deleted
Their favourite toy — the learner in this book (one photo + its name)

In this book your child’s own toy learns to use the potty and your child is the teacher. Add one clear photo of the teddy, bunny or whoever it is, and tell us its name — we paint it exactly, bow and worn patches included. No toy photo? We paint the book with your child as the learner instead.

So we know who we are talking to — and can reach you quickly if anything about your book needs a word before it is printed.

The book itself

Ebook — £6.99. See every page first, pay only if you love it. Love it in your hands too? The printed British hardcover upgrade (£29.99, free UK delivery) comes with your finished ebook.

Add a dedication page — free (optional)

No card. No account. We email you your child, painted into the first pages, within 24 hours — you pay only if it makes you smile.

Painted from one photo Their own clothes, really theirs A human checks every page Printed in Britain Photos deleted after your order

how it works

One photo becomes the whole book.

The photo we painted Maja from
the photo we painted Maja from
Maja painted into page six of the book
page six of Maja’s book

Their face, their hair, their own clothes — painted by our studio, checked page-by-page by a human. You see your child painted before you pay a penny.

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Flip through Maja’s real book

This is a real finished book, unretouched. The pages below show Maja, our demo star — your edition is repainted from scratch around your child, with their name woven through every page.

Book page artwork

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Why this book helps

Built on how potty training actually works — not on charm

Health visitors, the NHS and ERIC (the UK children’s bowel and bladder charity) give parents the same handful of steps: let a teddy try first, sit on the potty dressed, as play, praise every try, never shame an accident, and leave nights for later. Every one of those is a page in this book — in the order it really happens, so a child hears the whole routine in their own name before they are asked to do it.

The toy is the learner on purpose. Letting a doll or teddy “go first” is a technique the guidance recommends because it takes the pressure off the child. Here it is your child’s own toy — the one they trust — and your child is the teacher who shows it every step, then joins in (“Maja felt a wiggle too!”). Children learn most by teaching.

Written for the window that works. Research on when to start points to roughly two to two-and-a-half years, when a child can notice the feeling, get to the potty and follow a short routine — so this is a short rhyming book for a two-year-old’s attention, not a story for a five-year-old.

Kind words, no disgust. One study found children whose parents praised and used calm, matter-of-fact language about poo finished training sooner than those who heard “yuck” and “smelly”. So the poo page waves bye-bye and moves on, and the accident page says learning takes a while — because it does.

Sources we built on: NHS and ERIC potty-training guidance; T. Berry Brazelton’s child-oriented approach (adopted by the American Academy of Pediatrics); Blum, Taubman & Nemeth on the age window; the “social story” method of putting each step in order. This is a storybook, not medical advice — if you are worried, ask your health visitor.

The child's own toy, from the parent's photo The same toy, painted into the book

Their toy, from your photo → painted, bow and all. Same face on every page.

Free with every copy: a printable star chart with your child’s name and their toy in the corner — you colour in a star together after every try.

The free printable star chart, with the child's name and their toy in the corner

It arrives with the book, ready to print at home — one star for every try, and no star is ever taken away.

The story

What happens inside

Every page is one step of potty training in the order it really happens: the potty arrives, the toy sits on it (dressed, just to try), the wiggle that means 'now', the run to the potty, the wait, the TINKLE and the cheer, waving bye-bye to the poo, hands and bubbles, the puddle that is completely fine, big toilets at Granny's, big-kid pants, and nappies for sleep because nights can wait. Your child's real toy is the learner and your child is the teacher on every page — the gentlest way to rehearse the whole thing without any pressure on the child at all.

Rhyming verse for ages 2–4 · 13 painted spreads · a “made especially for…” dedication page for your message.

How it works

Sixty seconds now. A book that's properly theirs.

  1. Type & tap ~60 seconds Their name, one photo, your email. That’s genuinely everything — no account, no payment.
  2. See them painted in within 24 hours We paint your child into the story — face, hair, their own clothes — and email you the first pages free, watermarked. Judge the likeness with your own eyes.
  3. Love it? Then it’s theirs only if you smile Unlock the full book from the preview page. A human checks every spread before it reaches you as an ebook tonight — and the printed British hardcover upgrade offer, for the bookshelf, comes with it.

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The Little Tailor Promise

You see your child painted into the story before you pay anything. If the preview doesn’t make you smile, you owe us nothing and your photo is deleted. And if you love it but something isn’t quite as you expected, tell us what’s off — we’ll fix it, free of charge. We’re not happy until the book has earned its place on the bedtime shelf.

Questions parents ask

Before you ask…

Will it actually look like my child?

That’s exactly why the preview is free. We paint your child from your photo: face, hair, skin tone, even the clothes they really wear. You judge the likeness with your own eyes before paying anything, and if a detail is off, tell us — we’ll fix it, free of charge.

What photo works best?

One clear, front-facing photo with their face easy to see — close up, in good daylight, looking at the camera, nothing in front of the face. The closer and clearer the face, the better the likeness on every page. You can change it later if the preview isn’t right.

What happens to the photo?

It’s used only to paint your book, then deleted within 30 days of your book being finished — and within 90 days if you never go ahead. It is never used to train an AI model and never shared. No account is created. Our photo promise →

What does it cost?

£6.99 for the ebook — and you see every page first, so you pay only if you love it. Love it? Upgrade to the printed British hardcover for £29.99, free UK delivery — the offer comes with your finished ebook. The whole journey, plainly →

How fast is delivery?

The free preview lands within 24 hours. The ebook is yours the moment you approve it; the hardcover upgrade is printed in Britain and typically arrives well inside two weeks.

Who are you?

Little Tailor Books is a small British studio — a trading name of Complete Asset Solutions Ltd, registered in England & Wales. Every book is checked by a human before it reaches a family.

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