The Couch Potato

Written by Jory John

Narrated by Kirby Heyborne

An Instant New York Times Bestseller * An Instant Indie Bestseller * An Indie Next List Selection

Feeling fried? Peel yourself on the couch and meet your new pal-tato! The winning fourth picture book from the #1 New York Times bestselling creators of The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and The Cool Bean, Jory John and Pete Oswald, will get you and your kids moving!

The Couch Potato has everything within reach and doesn't have to move from the sunken couch cushion. But when the electricity goes out, Couch Potato is forced to peel away from the comforts of the living room and venture outside. Could fresh air and sunshine possibly be better than the views on screen?

Readers of all ages will laugh along as their new best spuddy learns that balancing screen time and playtime is the root to true happiness.

Check out Jory John and Pete Oswald’s funny, bestselling books for kids 4-8 and anyone who wants a laugh:

• The Bad Seed
• The Good Egg
• The Cool Bean
• The Couch Potato
• The Good Egg Presents: The Great Eggscape!
• The Bad Seed Presents: The Good, the Bad, the Spooky!
• The Cool Bean Presents: As Cool as It Gets
• That’s What Dinosaurs Do

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Nov 3, 2020
• ISBN: 9780063087989

Jory John

Jory John is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and two-time E. B. White Read Aloud Honor recipient. Jory’s work includes the award-winning Goodnight Already! series; the bestselling Food Group series, including The Bad Seed, The Good Egg, and more; the national bestseller All My Friends Are Dead; and many more popular picture books. You can visit him online at joryjohn.com.

Reviews for The Couch Potato

[michele · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The recording is not working it’s very choppy , please check it

[Dmitry Maslov · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Choppy audio quality. Irritating. Please update the audio file for this book.

[Naomi Winter · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Was very choppy recording.
Kids got board of it.
Please fix it

[Astarte · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Choppy recording as mentioned by other reviewers. I had no problems with other audiobooks.

[Shaina Perkkio · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Audio skips terribly. I agree with previous review-please upload again

[Sarah Watts · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

The recording is messed up. Frustrating because I thought it was my internet at first.

[Lorelei · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Please update this audio sounds like it could be good but the audio is choppy !!

[Jordan and Brandy Nation · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Choppy, terrible audio!! Please update the file so it reads more clear.

[James Cataldo · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Terrible quality recording, ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh ugh uhh

[Roberto Garcia · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

That we should look the outside world and enjoy it

[Abantika Bose · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was a fun story. I enjoyed it with my 30 month old.

[cait · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Audio quality terrible - please upload again we love this bokk

[Ashley Gray · Rating: 2 out of 5 stars]

Audio quality is terrible, please reupload or something we love this book

[finnorszag2120 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

The whole family loved the funny story. Thank you so much!

[Hegde Bhagi-Krishna · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

It was great. However, the starting was quite putting off

[THAYS · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Shitty audio quality wth??? Is this worth our money???? This is so annoying

[Salome van Niekerk · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

It was fun! ? And all these books are great for me ??

[cheryl_in_cc_nv · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

There are other anti-screen books. I think this is not as good, because it's too earnest & preachy. Not much humor... the things the character discovers are the same things that moms already say. Like the satisfaction of energetic movement, the sensory impact of real scenery compared to screensaver pictures, and spontaneous activities with friends who gather first, then figure out what to do. I'd add going to the kitchen and actually making your own healthier snacks.

But I do like the series (set? they pretty much each stand alone) and will continue to read them all.

[shebaybooknerd · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This was our first book we read in the Food Group series and Dexter LOVES it. It's such a great little story about the Couch Potato and how comfortable it is to be on the couch with all of his things at hand. But when the electricity is blown, and Couch Potato is forced to experience real life outside his home, he realizes all of the great connections he's missing out on! Relationships with people, connections with nature...he still likes the comfortability of the couch, but he learns how important it is to have interpersonal relationships with people and environments. This teaches such a great lesson all while making it fun. Great book, and wonderful series!

[mickyfine · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

The couch potato has the comfiest couch in the world, why would it ever leave it? But one day there's a power outage and it discovers that there's some pretty great things about going outside and being with friends.

Not quite as subtle as some of the other books in this series, but cute all the same. As always, I love the many potato puns included in the illustrations.