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?

Jump,Frog Jump! Is a reparative, fiction book. This book is about a frog that gets away from different creatures that go after him. On every page they include the new creature that goes after him as well as the previous creatures so your reading the same text over and over again but with an added sentence each page. This is a good read aloud book for teachers to read to younger children. Before the teacher turns the page one could have the students predict what the text will be fore the next show more page. Then the teacher could turn the page and see if the students are correct. The illustrations in this book can get hard to look at after a while because the main colors used on each page are green and blue with very little change and added color. But the nice thing that the illustrations do show is how the frog does get away. show less

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