When he says he does, Andrew says he does, too, and they go together.Īuthor Robert Munsch was having toilet training issues with his son (named Andrew) and he had an issue at a storytelling session when a boy in the audience started calling to his father that he needed to pee (and that boy was named Andrew, too). So they change his sheets and put him back to bed and 20 minutes later, Andrew yells down to ask Grandpa if he needs to pee. They assume he’s fallen asleep, but then he tells them that he wet his bed. They put him to bed and wait for him to call that he does need to go after all, but he’s quiet. After dinner, everyone asks him if he needs to pee before bed and he tells them no. Of course, just a few minutes after putting on the cumbersome suit and going outside, he announces that he has to pee. At Grandma and Grandpa’s house, he wants to play in the snow but everyone wants to make sure he doesn’t need to pee before bundling him into his big snowsuit. They stop the car and he goes behind a bush to pee. What makes this book so dangerous? Use of the word ‘pee’Īndrew insists that he doesn’t have to pee, but one minute after leaving the house, he suddenly has to go immediately. Before they put him in the car his mother said, “Andrew, do you have to go pee?” One day Andrew’s mother and father were taking him to see his grandma and grandpa. Written by Robert Munsch, Illustrated by Michael Martchenko Annick Press, Ltd, 1987

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