Tissue, Please!

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Summary: 'Snot a bad book for kids to learn from!
Review: This book is a sequel to Excuse Me!, using the same set of froggy characters, quirky illustrations, and subtle humor. Like the first book (which dealt with burping), Tissue, Please! is a book on using good manners, even when body functions get out of hand (literally, in this book - yuck!) The main character, Frog, is having a difficult time with his runny nose and doesn't know about using tissues. He grosses out several adults, before his mother finally introduces him to tissues. There are a few funny scenes (like during the ballet, when frog deftly swoops up a tissue en plie to wipe his nose and the other froggy dancers follow suit.
As anyone who has worked with a class full of very young children knows, many do not know about blowing their nose; this book provides humorous, yet delicately handled, instruction. This is a great book to use during the fall and winter flu seasons, perhaps coupled with a nonfiction germ book for young children, like Germs Make Me Sick (Reading Rainbow Books).