Robert Kalan

This spare book is bright, colorful, and fun. It is perfect for read-alouds for children 2 and up, who can get the humor of it. My daughters love it and I love looking at because the colors are so hypnotic.

This is a fun little picture book, great for reading aloud to kids. It is nice and repetitious sort of in the style of a little old lady who swallowed a fly. And what kid doesn't like frogs snakes turtles and such?

This is a great book about a frog and his pond habitat and the jumps he makes. It startes with the frog going after the fly then goes on to tell of the fish that went after the frog then the snake that went after the fish and so on. Goes all the way til you get to the shore and the humans go after capturing the turtle but somehow it never quite comes to fuitition because the frog is smart enough to jump his way out of capture.

I really enjoyed reading this to children. It has a sense of show more repetition so the kids began to expect what I would say next.

In my classroom I could use this in science to do a lesson on the life cycle, habitats, or even amphibians. As a literature lesson we could use this to write a story using some kind of personification or a simple poem. As an art lesson we could use the pictures on how to blend colors with a varieties of hues. This is one of those timeless ones that will never go out of style. show less

Pages: 22
Reading Level: 1.2

This semi-wordless book tells the tale of a great fish chase. The book is very minimalist but will be great for beginning readers especially by it's pictures and repetition. This would be great in a K or 1st grade class for group or individual reaching.