Ben Gives Up His Dummy: The book that makes children want to move on from dummies! (Featuring the ‘Dummy Fairy’)
£6.60
A picture book that is designed to help children who are struggling to give up their dummies. Children love it because it’s a fabulous fairy story with beautiful illustrations, and parents love it because it enables children to kick their dummy habit once and for all.
This book ALSO tackles the days following the departure of the pacifiers, so parents don’t have to worry about a child missing their pacifiers once they’ve gone.
The book follows the story of a little boy called Ben, who refuses to give up his dummy. Then one night his mother persuades him to leave all his dummies outside his room for the ‘Dummy Fairy’ to take – (in exchange for a special gift). Ben gets to meet the fairy, who shows him that it IS possible to give up dummies without shedding a single tear. The book uses a fun and imaginative story to teach children why it makes sense to give up dummies, and it also offers up some fun ideas to stop them missing them once they’ve gone. After reading, parents can simply follow the book at home, and arrange an exciting visit from the Dummy Fairy, to the delight of their child. Ben Gives Up His Dummy provides an easy, fun way for parents to say goodbye to dummies for good.
See also: Bea Gives Up Her Dummy
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Additional information
| Publisher | Illustrated edition (4 Jan. 2016), Little Boo Publishing |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 48 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0993420303 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0993420306 |
| Reading age | 3 – 5 years |
| Dimensions | 21.59 x 0.33 x 21.59 cm |
by Heather F
I was sceptical as I’m sure many of you are, that’s why you’re reading the reviews. This book is a little miracle, I’m so surprised at how well it worked. I’m not mad about the story where every time they miss the dummy they think of their favourite food. Thought that was a bit much for a 2 year old. However the story is basically like a tooth fairy for dummies, they get a present in the morning after a successful dummy free sleep. My child read this book twice and wanted to leave his dummies out that night. Success! He was so looking forward to the present in the morning that he’s not mentioned dummies today at all and when asked who gave you the dinosaur he says the fairies. It’s definitely worth a try in our experience.
by Michelle
Honestly I read some of the reviews and though yeah right this won’t work for our little boy who loves his dummy! He’s 20 months.
The first night we read the story we ask if he wanted to give his dummy to the dummy fairy, no was the reply.
The second night we read the book again. This time he didn’t ask for his dummy so we didn’t give it to him. He went the whole night with out. dummy. We did leave a little gift out side his door and a sticker for the morning which he loved.
This book works well.
by JC
Loved this book and so did my granddaughter such a lovely story.
by Sarah
In principle this is a good book. Reads well etc. Basic concept is the tooth fairy, but for dummies. However, my little boy is now scared that fairies are trying to steal his dummies and is hiding them so they don’t get taken. He now hates fairies…sorry Tinkerbell.
Since our boy already likes Santa, we’re going to stick to the old “When you’re 3 years old you need to leave your dummies out for Father Christmas in exchange for many presents” idea.
by Ashley W.
I was really dreading when the time came for my toddler to stop using his dummy. He was very much attached to it and I feared nights of upset over its removal. However, having read this book a couple of times to him to prepare him, the evening came for him to collect all of his dummies up into an envelope to leave for the dummy fairy. It very much helped that he loves dinosaurs (the present from the dummy fairy in the book) and was very excited to receive his dinosaur the next morning. This book has made what I anticipated to be a very tricky transition, to one that has been incredibly smooth – magic and a dinosaur, what more could a toddler want?!
by Matthew
This was the nudge our just-turned-3-year-old needed
by Ashley W.
This story has so much potential. But I ended up cutting out and taping up the pages about the fairy magically enabling the boy to taste his favourite food in his mouth when he missed his dummy.
With these modifications I believe it is a bad pleasant and relatable story for younger children to grasp when faced with the truly difficult challenge of parting with their much loved dummy.
by D Parmington
Such a lovely book. Read it about 5 times over the space of a week and then we tried to give up the dummy. Surprisingly it worked after a month no dummy at bed time.