This book is a stunning photographic look at the fascinating lives of frogs.  Our youngest readers will love the photographs and rhymes; slightly older children will also appreciate the author’s note about the difference between scientific and anecdotal research—and the value in both. 

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BEING FROG

April Pulley Sayre – Author and Photographer

Frogs are amazing creatures, and this book offers our young readers an up-close and revealing peek at their everyday lives.

We follow them from egg to tadpole to froglet crawling up onto land for the first time.

We watch them resting on a favorite log, searching for food, and leaping through the air. And see how frogs are unique, individual beings with rich lives all their own in the wild.

This small book of relatively few words manages to say a lot. Some pages give our children a rudimentary understanding of a frog’s daily life and the life cycle of a frog. Others provide gentle reminders that these are creatures whose lives are only partly understood by human beings.

The author’s note itself is lovely: While offering fascinating details about her own encounters with specific frogs, it also clarifies for young readers the difference between scientific and anecdotal research—and the value in both. The youngest readers will love the photographs and rhymes; slightly older children will also appreciate the author’s note.

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“Being Frog”

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Two Additional Resources:

1.  All About Frogs for Kids – http://hobart.k12.in.us/hedge/frogs/frogs.html

2.  “Frogs!”  San Diego Zoo