Penguin Says "Please" (Hello Genius)

While this book hasn't yet gotten my toddler (who has been signing for a while but just started speaking) to actually say or sign please, now she smiles and nods when I ask, instead of becoming infuriated. I don't know what the heck she thought "please" meant, but she would go bananas whenever I'd encourage her to say it. Since she really loves the illustrations (especially when the penguin is upside-down), I'm hoping she'll come around to actually *saying* please pretty soon, but since this has eliminated the mini "please"-based tantrums, I'm calling it a win. Very sturdy book, bright colors, sweet illustrations, small enough to pop in the diaper bag, short enough to read in a minute or two if the kid wants several encores.

my 18-month-old is loving this Hello Genius series, and we have the entire set. This is one of the latest to join us. Since she's learning how to speak, I thought that learning manners would be a good thing to add to her vocabulary, and purchased this book. It helps that she likes penguins -- the bossy little penguin in the beginning of the story is gently chastised by his mommy, and learns to preface requests with "please" rather than just demanding things. Simple story. Good for short toddler attention spans. And after a few reads, she started attempting to say "please" when asking for snacks or stories to be read to her!

My three year old said he liked the pages. His favorite was, “I have something to drink, please?” He loves all books by Dahl

Got this for my son. I don't know what it is about this book but when I show it to him before I begin to read he gets so excited and starts reaching for it while jumping up and down in his bouncy jumping thing. I'm a penguin fan so I find this very cute. The story is very simplistic and not much of a story. There are no rhymes. It mainly teaches children to say please. It is a short story.

Great, short story to help kids learn to say please. Love the last few pages with the socks. We are penguin fans so my little one and I love this book and read it a few times in a row when we first got it.

This is a very simple book that is excellent for encouraging your toddler to say "please." There really isn't much of a story-- at first Penguin is demanding things without saying please, then his mom tells him he must say please, then he repeats his requests saying please. Nonetheless, my daughter LOVES this book and is happy to read it many times in one sitting. I have been working on teaching her to sign "please" and after signing it with her throughout several readings, now she knows the sign! I'll definitely be purchasing more books from this series.

This is a cute book about manners. It’s very short and basically has the penguin rephrasing what were initially his demands into a polite way of asking after his mom corrected him. The illustrations are very nice and vibrant, which my toddlers enjoy. Would definitely recommend.

My toddler has me read this to her several times a day. It’s really helped teach her to say please. She knew how with sign language but wasn’t consistent and now she will say “peas” unprompted for things she wants. Going to get the other books in the series next!