Download or read book Nobody Likes Frogs written by Barbara Davis-Pyles and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2023-03-28 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Read this humorous, skillfully informative book all about frogs next!"—Imagination Soup Why would you pick up a book about frogs? Nobody likes them! At least according to Persnickety Q. Turtle. In this humorous narrative nonfiction picture book the text cleverly puts the reader in the role of the “expert” to educate a persnickety turtle about the amazing amphibian known as the frog. With the reader's help, Persnickety Q. Turtle learns intriguing frog facts, such as they can breathe through their skin while underwater and their eyes help them swallow. Pick up this book and help Persnickety find out all the reasons frogs are such incredible creatures.
Download or read book Grizzly Boy written by Barbara Davis-Pyles and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One morning Theo decides he is no longer human. "I'm a GRIZZLY! I'm WILD AND FREE!" But being a grizzly boy isn't easy if you still have to go to school. A fun, endearing, and sweet picture book, Grizzly Boy will have "wild and free" little grizzlies everywhere asking for repeat readings. One day Theo wakes up and decides he's a grizzly bear. He leaps out of bed, practices his growl . . . and his roar. . . and scratches his bottom on the bedpost. "Oh my! That's very convincing," his mother responds. When Theo finds a bowl of lettuce and berries for breakfast instead of his favorite Frosted Monster Bites cereal, he is still determined to have a day that's wild and free, but he finds it's more difficult than he expected, especially when you have a clever mother and still have to go to school where there are rules and more rules! After a challenging day as a grizzly boy at school, Theo learns you can follow the rules and still enjoy being wild and free!
Download or read book The Frog Book written by Steve Jenkins and published by HMH Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2019 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, color, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal. Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features--what's not to love about frogs? In this magnificently illustrated picture book, Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore one of the world's most diverse--and most threatened--animals. With more than 5,000 different frog species on the planet, in every color of the rainbow and a vast number of vivid patterns, no creatures are more fascinating to learn about or look at. Jenkins and Page present a stunning array of these intriguing amphibians and the many amazing adaptations they have made to survive.
Download or read book Stink and the Freaky Frog Freakout written by Megan McDonald and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a close encounter with a mutant amphibian makes him freaky for frogs, water-shy Stink becomes a swimming success after being in the Polliwog swim class frog-ever.
Download or read book Public Like a Frog written by Jean Houston and published by Quest Books (IL). This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ground-breaking work on the spiritual biographies of Thomas Jefferson, Emily Dickinson, and Helen Keller. Companion audio.
Download or read book I Don t Want to Be a Frog written by Dev Petty and published by Dragonfly Books. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hit book about a willful young frog with a serious identity crisis and his heard-it-all-before father is now available in paperback. Perfect for fans of Mo Willems’s Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Jon Klassen’s I Want My Hat Back! Frog wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog. A cat, perhaps. Or a rabbit. An owl? But when a hungry wolf arrives—a wolf who HATES eating frogs—our hero decides that being himself isn’t so bad after all. In this very silly story with a sly message, told in hilarious dialogue between a feisty young frog and his heard-it-all-before father, young readers will identify with little Frog’s desire to be something different, while laughing along at his stubborn yet endearing schemes to prove himself right. And look for the hilarious sequels—I Don't Want to Be Big, There's Nothing to Do!, and I Don't Want to Go to Sleep. ★ "First-time author Petty’s dialogue between a frog father and his son makes its point about accepting one’s nature with a big grin. . . . The story might create similar gratitude in the minds of readers—or it might just make them giggle."—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW "A lively look at self-acceptance."—Kirkus "This amusing story ends with a laugh and a much more content frog."—School Library Journal "Silliness and deadpan humor combine into a hopping good story of being happy with who you are."—Booklist "A paean to self-acceptance wrapped in snappy dialogue and illustrated with richly colored comic paintings."—Wall Street Journal "Petty and Boldt provide just enough predictability to hook youngest readers, then deliver a delightful twist or two to create surprise and satisfaction—for both the green hero and the many fans he'll make with this book."—Shelf Awareness "This lighthearted exploration of identity will delight as a readaloud."—The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
Download or read book Frogged written by Vivian Vande Velde and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edgar Award–winning author Vivian Vande Velde comes a fresh and funny twist on the fairy tale "The Princess and the Frog" in which a princess gets turned into a frog herself!
Download or read book I Am Not a Penguin A Pangolin s Lament written by Liz Wong and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This hilarious story of a pangolin with an identity crisis will be loved by fans of Penguin Problems and Unicorn Thinks He's Pretty Great. Poor pangolin--he's trying to explain who he is, but all the other animals keep getting confused. You have scales--like a snake? A long tongue--like a frog? A strong scent--like a skunk? You can roll in a ball--like an armadillo? And a name that sounds a lot like...penguin? We love penguins! "No, no, no! I am not a penguin! There are no penguins here!" But then, just when it couldn't get worse, a penguin arrives!! What's a poor pangolin got to do to be understood?!
Download or read book Quackers written by Liz Wong and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Quackers has always believed that he is a duck, but when he meets new friends who look like him and call themselves cats, he has to find a way to combine the best of both worlds"--
Download or read book I Don t Even Like Frogs That Much written by Linda J. Woods and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2007-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends bring us gifts of love. What if your friends brought you collections of things you didn't even really like that much? This is the case with the collection of frogs brought to the author's mom. She said one day to her daughter/author, "I wonder why people give me frogs? I don't even like frogs that much." What she discovered later was that she really collected wonderful friends. Friends can really be your most valuable treasure in life. As this story unfolds, the reader will enjoy discovering a story of true friendship. Live well! Laugh often! Love much! Collective many friends.
Download or read book Animals Nobody Loves written by Seymour Simon and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-08-17 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 26 giant photographs—of a roaring grizzly, a piranhas razor-sharp teeth, a rattlesnakes poisonous fangs—Seymour Simon reveals the truth about natures most misunderstood animals and lets the reader decide what to really think about natures grossest, fiercest, and most fascinating survivors.
Download or read book The Froggies Do NOT Want to Sleep written by Adam Gustavson and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare for a different kind of bedtime book--a zany, imaginative adventure to send your little froggies off to dreamland. Not since David Weisner's Tuesday have frogs had so much fun! Why go to bed when you can play the accordion, dance underwater ballet, and hold burping contests with strange alien lifeforms? For every kid who ever came up with an outlandish excuse for why it can't be bedtime yet, these froggies' antics will delight and entertain. Acclaimed illustrator Adam Gustavson's raucous authorial debut shows parents there's more than one way to do bedtime.
Download or read book Men Are Frogs written by Saranna DeWylde and published by Zebra Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Sparkling…DeWylde uses her diverse, nontraditional takes on fairy tale characters and tropes to delve deep into themes of toxic masculinity, female empowerment, and the transformative power of love. Delightful.” —Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW Fans of Angie Hockman and Sarah Hogle won’t want to miss this enchanting, funny, and sexy novel that takes you inside the heart of the world’s magic—and warms your heart as the resident Fairy Godmothers seek to expand that magic through the power of love… SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE CURSE . . . Disgraced wedding planner Zuri Davis is so relieved to be offered a job with Fairy Godmothers, Inc., she’s willing to trade the high-rise excitement of Chicago for the small-town charm of Ever After. Falling for one of her grooms, even unintentionally, was enough destroy her career—and also to prove that all men are indeed frogs. But when she meets gorgeous B&B owner Philip Charming, who definitely lives up to his name, even she is tempted to test that theory . . . AND SOMETIMES YOU’RE THE CURE Three hundred years as a frog by day and himself by night, is enough to test any man’s patience—even if Philip knows he deserved Petunia’s curse. It certainly taught him not to mess around when it comes to making promises. And stubborn, proud Zuri is a woman he’d like to promise his heart and everything else to—if only he weren’t a sometimes-frog. Can he hope for True Love’s Kiss from a woman whose trust has been so thoroughly broken?
Download or read book The Goose Egg written by Liz Wong and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Jumpstart's Read for the Record pick Quackers comes the story of Henrietta the Elephant, whose life goes from calm to chaotic when a baby goose comes to stay. Henrietta likes her quiet life. A morning swim, a cup of tea--all is serene. But everything changes when she bumps her head and winds up with a goose egg--a REAL goose egg. Henrietta tries to return the baby goose to the nest, but her flock has flown. It's up to Henrietta to raise her. Goose isn't anything like Henrietta. She's flappy, and noisy, and exhausting. But Henrietta raises that goose right. She teaches her to swim, and to honk, and to fly. When Goose flies off with the other geese, Henrietta is so proud! And then . . . lonely. How quiet her life feels now. But the love you give has a way of coming back to you. And Henrietta has a wonderful surprise in store. . . .
Download or read book I m Nobody Who Are You written by Emily Dickinson and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2002 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the author's greatest poetry--from the wistful to the unsettling, the wonders of nature to the foibles of human nature--is an ideal introduction for first-time readers. Original.
Download or read book Froggy s Halloween written by Jonathan London and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-08-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Froggy tries to find just the right costume for Halloween and although his trick-or-treating does not go as he had planned, he manages to enjoy himself anyway. Children have enjoyed the misadventures of trouble-prone Froggy in more than twenty books. Froggy just never learns—and that's why we love him! “An enjoyable, light-hearted comedy of errors, cheerfully illustrated with festive Halloween details.” —Booklist “Children will just love this frog, and non-scary Halloween stories are much needed, especially good ones.” —School Library Journal
Download or read book Poking a Dead Frog written by Mike Sacks and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR Amy Poehler, Mel Brooks, Adam McKay, George Saunders, Bill Hader, Patton Oswalt, and many more take us deep inside the mysterious world of comedy in this fascinating, laugh-out-loud-funny book. Packed with behind-the-scenes stories—from a day in the writers’ room at The Onion to why a sketch does or doesn’t make it onto Saturday Night Live to how the BBC nearly erased the entire first season of Monty Python’s Flying Circus—Poking a Dead Frog is a must-read for comedy buffs, writers and pop culture junkies alike.
