Tuesday Book Look.......Frog on His Own (April is National Frog Month)

Since April is National Frog Month I decided that this Tuesday's Book Look book would be Frog On His Own by Mercer Mayer

Frog on His Own is a wordless picture book . It'ss the 4th in a series of 5 books.
A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog, the first book in this series, was the beginning of Mercer Mayer's long and illustrious career over twenty-five years ago. It is also one of the books that began the wordless picture book genre.

In this book, the boy and his animal friends go to the park. Some how frog gets separated from his friends and he manages to get into all kinds of situations.
This a great book for kids to "read" to themselves or for you to read/describe to the children.

The complete list of books in the series is:
# A Boy, a Dog and a Frog (1967)
# Frog, Where Are You? (1969)
# A Boy, a Dog, a Frog, and a Friend (1971)
# Frog on His Own (1973)
# Frog Goes to Dinner (1974)
# One Frog Too Many (1975)


Go to my Storytelling Crafts and Kids blog to read a wonderful Japanese folktale about frogs and learn to make Origami Hopping Frogs.

Click her for a Frog Coloring Page

Enchanted Learning has very simple directions for a Paper Frog Puppet

Here are a couple of fun Froggie Tunes:

Five Green and Speckled Frogs

Five Green and speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs,
Yum, Yum.
One jumped in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are four green speckled frogs,
Glub, glub.

Four Green and speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs,
Yum, Yum.
One jumped in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are three green speckled frogs,
Glub, glub.

Three Green and speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs,
Yum, Yum.
One jumped in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are two green speckled frogs,
Glub, glub.

Two Green and speckled frogs,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs,
Yum, Yum.
One jumped in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there is one green speckled frog,
Glub, glub.

(sing the last verse very quickly)
One Green and speckled frog,
Sat on a speckled log,
Eating some most delicious bugs,
Yum, Yum.
One jumped in the pool,
Where it was nice and cool,
Now there are (slow down and sing sadly) no green speckled frogs,
Glub, glub.



Bloop Bloop

Bloop bloop went the little green frog one day,
Bloop bloop went the little green frog,
Bloop bloop went the little green frog one day,
And they all went bloop bloop bloop!

Weeeee all know frogs go,
Lahdeedahdeedum!
Lahdeedahdeedum!
Lahdeedahdeedum!
We all know frogs go,
Lahdeedahdeedum!
They don't go bloop bloop bloop!


Five Little Tadpoles

Five little tadpoles swimming near the shore.
The first one said, “Let’s swim some more.”
The second one said, “Let’s rest awhile.”
The third one said, “Swimming makes me smile.”
The fourth one said, “My legs are growing long.”
The fifth one said, “I’m getting very strong.”
Five little tadpoles will soon be frogs.
They’ll jump from the water and sit on logs.