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Summary
From award-winning author and photographer April Pulley Sayre comes a stunning photographic look at the fascinating lives of frogs.
A frog is a being.
It is watching.
It is seeing...
Frogs are amazing creatures, and this book offers young readers an up-close and revealing peek at their everyday lives. Follow them from egg to tadpole to froglet crawling up onto land for the first time. 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.
Author Notes
April Pulley Sayre (1966-2021) was the award-winning author of more than fifty-five natural science books for children and adults, including her award-winning photo-illustrated books Being Frog , Raindrops Roll , and Best in Snow . Sayre's books received an abundance of starred reviews, have been dubbed ALA Notable Books ( Raindrops Roll ; Rah, Rah, Radishes ) and won a Geisel Honor ( Vulture View ). Learn more at AprilSayre.com.
Reviews (2)
School Library Journal Review
PreS-Gr 3--A frog is a living being with habits and needs. The author's spare verse walks the reader through detailed photographs of a frog's typical day, including lots of waiting, swimming, and leaping. The text does a good job of evoking and contextualizing a frog's life without overwhelming readers with excessive information by using simple rhymes. Notable omissions, including a frog's diet, make this best for a very young audience rather than for research projects. Detailed photographs show frogs in their natural habitats and reveal the textures and tones of a pond, a plant, or a rock. The photos could encourage crowd participation in a storytime setting; the storyteller could ask very young children to find the frog on the page, list the plants or environments they see, or describe what the frog is doing (swimming, sitting, climbing). While resources for further exploration are limited to three websites, the inclusion of a resource for recorded frog songs and calls is a unique feature. VERDICT A beautifully photographed nonfiction book suitable for read-aloud.--Savannah Kitchens, Parnell Memorial Library, Montevallo, AL
Publisher's Weekly Review
Focused on frogs' essential frog-ness rather than anthropomorphized interpretations of amphibian life, Sayre uses rich photographs and evocative language to explore how frogs might understand and experience their environments. Spare, poetic language with a loose sense of rhyme is paired with photographs documenting frogs at rest and in motion: "A frog must hunt./ It scans. It spies./ It crawls. It lunges./ It fails. Retries." Sayre's close-up photos have a crystalline lucidity, immersing readers in the animals' lush, watery world. Simple questions ("Does frog time fly? Or trail, snail-slow?") invite readers to consider how the world may look and feel to a frog. A robust author's note thoughtfully explains how the book was made, as well as the differences between anecdotal evidence and scientific study. Sayre's gentle argument--"for me a made-up frog cannot match the beauty of a real frog--a creature so alive in its pond world"--persuades. Ages 3--8. (Feb.)