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Peep! Peep! Peep! Possum opened one small eye. What was that noise? Snug and warm in the midst of his winter's nap, Possum is roused by a small peep, peep, peep. In cranky morning fashion he is determined to find out who has so rudely awakened him. He and his friends, a bear, a muskrat, and a couple of catbirds, who also want the racket to stop, search high and low for the mystery peeper. Soon, though, with the sun shining down warm on their feathers and fur, they realize it wasn't so bad to be rousted out of bed after all. ... Read more

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A keeper!
This is the cutest book! It honestly warms my heart with it's simple story about animals harkening the coming of spring. The earnest possum rouses everyone around him to appreciate the beauty that surrounds them and welcome the changing of the seasons. The pictures are adorable and this is one of the few children's books that I'm always happy to read again and again. ... Read more

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Full of anticipation, Frog joins Rat on his travels in search of adventure. But Frog soon misses his friends, and he discovers that the wide world is very far from home . . . A wonderful story of adventure and home featuring the popular character Frog, in dual language. ... Read more

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In these further adventures of the sweet amphibian, Finklehopper Frog worries that the local bullies might make fun of his favorite hat at the town picnic. Should Finklehopper stay home and avoid the confrontation altogether? Meanwhile, his pal Ruby Rabbit is up against some tough competition in the annual hopping race. Luckily for Finklehopper and Ruby, facing fears and learning the value of good sportsmanship is a lot easier with a friend by your side. ... Read more

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Great message Great read
Finklehopper Frog has a terrific sense of style!
In a time in which my 2 and 4 year old girls are bombarded with images of princesses, its great to read about "real" characters with real feelings.
Finklehopper and his friend Ruby are willing to try the very things that frighten them.They take a risk that doesn't pay off in the usual sense (she loses the race) but pays off big in the lesson learned sense.

This is a really cute story with several terrific messsages! I love to read the witty, poetic lines outloud to my children.

My girls have replaced Barbie with a new favorite! ... Read more

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Lively
Energized
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Great
Frogs legs is an enchanting book. The poems and illustrations are animated and playfull. The colours are wonderful, I realy enjoyed it, and would recomend it highly.

Imaginative, fresh and wonderful book
I love this book , but above all, my nephew, 5 years old is fascinated by it. The poems are fresh and creative but overall, the drawings are absolutely amazing. The multi-colors frogs, singing, dancing, laughing are so charming. The colors are enchanting. I strongly recommand this book.Kids will love it. ... Read more

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Polliwog's transformation forces her to enter an unknown world outside the pond where she must accept her new life as a frog. A bilingual (English/Spanish) picture book for all ages. ... Read more

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About an animal growing up and learning to adapt
Engagingly written and illustrated by Tammy Carter Bronson, Polliwog is a bilingual English/Spanish picture book for young readers about the remarkable transformation of a polliwog into her new, adult life as a frog. Scientific facts and soft-toned color illustrations fill this most enjoyable read, about an animal growing up and learning to adapt to a new environment, new challenges, and new foods. Polliwog is a welcome and informatively entertaining addition to family, school and community library picture book and/or wildlife collections. ... Read more

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The easygoing, ever-popular Froggy keeps busy going to school, playing soccer, and baking a birthday surprise for his mom. ... Read more

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Hold on, the planet is going down the drain!
This is probably the most disappointing of the Commander Toad books, which my sons, ages 4 and 8, truly ENJOY and even beg for! It is a fun read, but not as outstanding as the other books in this series.

The crew receives a message from a planet inhabited only by doves. It turns out that their beans have swollen and clogged the storm sewer drains, causing the entire planet to flood. Very far-fetched, indeed.

The birds sent an SOS to Star Fleet when their wings grew tired from having no place to land. Mistaking their bird language, Commander Toad's crew brings a shipload of beans, which the birds don't really want. They just need dry ground on which to rest.

In the end, Commander Toad saves the day by swimming underwater to pierce the swollen beans with his official Star Fleet gadget. Then he must hold on to a statue of the Mayor while everything unattached goes down the drain! Swallow your disbelief!

The reason this book is not as good as the remainder of the series is because, in a few cases, the pictures don't mesh with the story. I.e. the text says Doc Peeper goes to the planet's surface, but the image doesn't show him in the sky skimmer. Also, the plot is even more oddball than usual.

Incredibly fun series of books. Try _Commander Toad and the Space Pirates_ or _Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy_. ... Read more

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A Toad-ally Terrific Tale!¿
Award-winning author Jane Yolen offers few words (43 total) but plenty of suspense. Hoptoad and his traveling buddies, a skinny lizard and a deceptively speedy tortoise, must scamper across a wide highway to avoid a mammoth red pickup. ("Truck coming. Heavy load. Toad hop. Toad hop!") Karen Lee Schmidt's watercolors loom larger-than-life: reptile scales you can almost touch, dusty desert scenes that almost parch your throat. Ever wonder what the world looks like from a toad's bulging eyes? In a two-page spread you can almost feel Hoptoad's fear as humongous headlights bear down on his quivering body frozen mid-road. Will he make it across? Or will he be flattened into a toad tortilla? Get the book to find out! ... Read more

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Song of La Selva
This book is a wonderful introduction to the rain forest and poison dart frogs for children. The story takes you through the life of a strawberry poison dart frog (my daughter Jessie's favorite frog) from egg to adult. The story is excellent and the pictures are fantastic! I have been to La Selva twice so I can say that the story and pictures are realistic. A picture quiz at the end of the book will keep your eyes open for other rain forest wildlife living in the pictures of this wonderful book. I instruct environmental education programs and use this book often. Enjoy! ... Read more

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A green treefrog in the Okefenokee Swampdemonstrates thevalue of perseverance. Colorful endpages givefactual informationabout the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refugeand its inhabitants. ... Read more

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Ms. Turtle is the best babysitter ever. When the little frogs are sad, she finds a way to make them smile. When they are full of secrets, she listens to them. Ms. Turtle even makes them a special promise. No wonder the little frogs love her!

Valeri Gorbachev's playful characters are sure to appeal to anyone who has ever had a favorite babysitter.

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Children will have fun with this book morning, noon, and night. It features an original story that tells of a day in the life of Froggy, plus reusable stickers that youngsters can use to help him through his day. They can get Froggy ready for school, place him in his classroom, take him to the soccer field, and finally put Froggy back in his bedroom so he can rest up for the next time they want to play. And that's not all! The book also includes simple word puzzles, picture to color, and a maze. ... Read more

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Two green frogs love disobeying their mother. They always do the opposite of whatever she tells them to do—they stay in bed when she wakes them, they make a mess when she asks them to clean. They"re so contrary, they even croak backwards! ... Read more

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They should have listened to their mother.
I love the playfulness of Yumi Heo's illustrations. They are cool and bursting with life. This folktale explains why naughty Korean children are called chung-gaeguri or green frogs. Karen Woodworth-Roman ... Read more

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Illus. in full color. A modern fable of a minnow who wants to follow his tadpole friend--who becomes a frog--onto land. ... Read more

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Self concensus at work
An email friend used the term "self consensus" to describe the process by which we start with a known person- ourselves- and move in small steps away from that to construct our image of another person we know via email. This book is a good illustration of that idea.

The story is about a minnow and a tadpole. They look alike, so they must be alike, right?The frog wakes up to having grown legs and the fish is astounded- this cannot be!They are both fish!Time goes on and the fish grows into a larger fish and the tadpole into a frog. Finally the frog is able to leave the pond, but eventually he returns to tell his old friend about the world.The fish pictures the birds as colorful fish with wings, the cow as a hilarious furry fish with horns and udders and the people as fish in clothing with hair. Of course the fish wants to see these amazing things so he jumps out, only to discover that he really needs to be in his cool, watery element to survive.

The illustrations are fairly simple colored pencil drawings- at least until we get to the creatures outside the pond. My children found the "birds" interesting, but the cow and the humans had them in stitches. They found those critters to be some of the funniest things they can imagine- and my 8 yo was able to understand and articulate that we base our assumptions on what we already know and understand.A pretty good lesson for kids to learn, IMO, as well as a sweet story of friendship between two very different creatures.

Fish is Fish as Epistemological Primer
Fish Is Fish (Lionni, 1970) describes a fish who is keenly interested in learning about what happens on land, but the fish cannot explore land because it can only breathe in water. It befriends a tadpole who grows into a frog and eventually goes out onto the land. The frog returns to the pond a few weeks later and reports on what he has seen. The frog describes all kinds of things like birds, cows, and people. The book shows pictures of the fish's representations of each of these descriptions: each is a fish-like form that is slightly adapted to accommodate the frog's descriptions--people are imagined to be fish who walk on their tailfins, birds are fish with wings, cows are fish with udders. This tale illustrates both the creative opportunities and dangers inherent in the fact that people construct new knowledge based on their current knowledge.

A Delightful Book
FISH IS FISH is a delightful book.It's fun for children, and a pleasure for adults to read out loud.The illustrations are beautiful.Two young "fish" are friends.One fish stays a fish; the other turns out to be a tadpole.The real fish refuses to believe that his friend is changing.How like real life!After tadpole goes up on land, he actually has more to add to their friendship - great stories about what he has seen on earth!When fish jumps onto land to explore, he almost dies.Tadpole saves him.In the end, both fish and tadpole are happy with their own unique worlds.Fish tells tadpole: "You were right ... Fish is fish."This story is so simply and wonderfully symbolic of how friends can remain friends, even when they change as they grow up.

Beautoful and Subtle. I Love This Book!
This fanciful and colorful book is about a fish and tadpole who become friends while living in the same pond. Tadpole soon grows legs and leavesthe pond. Fish is lonely without him and tries to follow. Disaster! Thegently presented lessons in this book stir me still. The words are simple,but the meaning, real and multi-faceted, is accessible to all ages.

Things are not always what they seem
The book's message--sometimes what is best for you is right before your eyes.This book teaches basic information about frogs and fish.It has beautiful colors which captivate the children's imagination and interest. Thoughtfully and creatively written, one of my favorite Leo Lionni books. This is a book which captivates the interest of chldren of all ages.Mypre-school age children love this book, as does the elementary age childrenin my classroom. ... Read more

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Poor frog. He wants to be like his friends, Duck, Rat and Hare, but his attempts to copy him all end up in disaster. Eventually, Frog learns that his friends love him for being himself-an ordinary green Frog. A wonderful story about what makes us unique featuring the popular character Frog, in dual language. ... Read more

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Very Nice Book!Very Touching!
This is a great book to read in any language.It is sweet and gentle and kids will love it.The story is about a frog that sees what other animals can do and puts down all that he can do until... He learns to apprecate it!I bought the bilingual version in Turkish/English so I could share it with my Turkish students. ... Read more

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Froggie Froggette
A wonderful story for children and adults. As the little frog,we all may want to be something different, and in this book the littlefrog realizes that she is wonderful just the way she is! Beautiful illustrations. ... Read more

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Once upon a time all frogs had beady little eyes . . . until one frog boasted that he could stare longer than anyone. Joung Un Kim's bold colors and stylized artwork are as spirited and amusing as the hilarious competition between Frog and his friends.
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"Roar down the runway, faster and faster, straight for the fence and TOTAL

DISASTER." Come along to Eagle Airport with Toad, that bug-eyed, wide-mouthed

jokester, his friends, Pig and Cow, and read all about why and how Toad learned

to fly an airplane.




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Once, in the Dreamtime, the biggest frog in Australia woke up thirsty. So thirsty that he drinks up all the water from the oceans, lakes, rivers, billabongs, puddles, and even from the clouds. When he is done, the earth is parched, and the other animals are thirsty.

Wise old Wombat suggests that the animals try to make the biggest frog laugh, so the water will spill out of his mouth. But the frog barely hears Kookaburra's best jokes, and yawns at Kangaroo's acrobatics. Koala waddles ridiculously, but still no luck.

What will make the frog laugh and bring life back to Australia?

Find out in this colorful retelling of a classic Australian folktale. ... Read more

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A humorous and ironic folk tale from the Maasai of East Africa in which only the frog (a most unlikely heroine) is courageous enough to take on a bully. ... Read more

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one of the all time favourites
My five-year old adores this book. It has great illustrations and an engaging story line about a monster hiding in the cave that turned out to be a tiny caterpillar. It is hillarious and involves child attention. After the first reading my son knows who is hiding in the cave and tries to reasure all the scared animals every time we read it. This book is a joy to read for both a parent and a child and has a great message that what we fear often turns out to be small issue.

Age Appropriate Attention Holder
This book holds the attention of its intended audience beyond belief. The repetitious phrase, spoken by the would be monster, enables young readers to stay involved as they anticipate each animals incounter. Older readers can't wait to find out the monster's true identity. Best of all the illustrations don't give the monster's identity away until the appropriate time. All during the story it is evident the children's imaginations are whirling wildly. A must have for any teacher or reading volunter. ... Read more