Once upon a Potty—Boy

Alona Frankel

1975

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Open page spread with left hand page illustration of woman changing child's diaper with English text above about the mother changing her son's diaper, and right hand page illustration with child sitting on toilet and English text above about child running to sit on his potty.

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Open page spread with left hand page illustration of flowers and the phrase "and sat" repeated to fill the page, and right hand page illustration of a toilet with matter inside it and English text about going in the potty.

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Creator Bio

Alona Frankel

b. 1937

Alona Frankel is an author and illustrator renowned for over thirty children’s picture books. She is most famous for her classic series Once Upon a Potty (original Hebrew Sir hasirim; 1975; 1st English edition, 1980), which has sold millions of copies worldwide. Born in Kraków, Poland, Frankel settled in Israel in 1949. In 2005, she received the Sapir Prize for Literature and Yad Vashem’s Buchman Prize for her literary memoir Yalda (Girl; 2004). Her second memoir volume, Naara (Teen) appeared in 2009. Other major Frankel works include Sefer hapilpilim (The Family of Tiny White Elephants; 1980) and Sipur al nesiḥa (The Princess and the Caterpillar; 1983).