Frog Goes to Dinner

This wordless book does a great job of illustrating the story. I found the facial expressions aswell as the body language to be excellent examples of showing emotions without dialogue. This would be an excellent book for kindergarten to first grade, allowing children to connect body language with emotions.

A Good Book for Pre-readers...

As a mom of two emerging readers (one 3, one 5) I have done alot of research into how children learn to read and this summer I am in hot pursuit of books that will help them practice.

One of the key skills that appears over and over in the literature is the ability to get 'clues' as to what is going on in the story from the pictures that accompany the text. This is one of the reasons I like this book. Without words, it allows my youngsters to practice their pre-reading skills of analyzing and interpreting what pictures mean.

The other reason, of course, is that this book is simply delightful. The drawings are detailed and funny and they keep my children coming back for more. A cute addition for a family's show more bookshelves.

[Don't forget to check out Tomie dePaola's wordless books as well.]

Good Reading reference books: "Reading Magic" by Mem Fox; " Raising Lifelong Learners" by Lucy McCormick; and the comprehensive if more cumbersome, "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print" by Marilyn Jager Adams. show less

I actually really enjoyed this book. I think it was a great story line and can be very appealing to younger and older kids. I really liked the illustration style. The book was published in 1974 so the illustrations are primarily brown and white sketches. The book can be for any age in elementary school.

I would recommend this book for students at a beginner or intermediate level. This book is about a boy who goes to a fancy dinner with his family. There is a frog that is jumping around the restaurant in a humorous way until it gets caught and is almost thrown out until the boy claims the frog as his own and he has a new pet. I would love to have this book in my classroom and constantly ask my students what they believe is going to happen from page to page.

This is a funny story told through pictures. A boy in early elementary school goes out to dinner at a fancy restaurant with his family. His pet frog stows away in his coat pocket and causes havoc. at the restaurant. The boy and his family are asked to leave. The last page is the best, it makes you wonder if the boy did it deliberately.

A unique book in that it contains no words and is illustration based. Unlike picture books aimed at pre-reading level children, this book can be used to develop inquiry and critical thinking skills in students. Using think-aloud, the teacher can direct student in a inquiry based discussion about events happening in the story. Appropriate for ages K-2 this book can also be used in art/design class allowing students to create their own picture books that tell a wordless story.

Title: Frog Goes To Dinner
Author: Mercer Mayer
Genre: Children’s

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, What an Animal II, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 Reading Challenge, Pages Read 2010, A to Z challenge, What An Animal III Challenge

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 1974


Back Cover: Frog goes to dinner…..

Mine: This is a great new series (to me) and of course it has frogs in it, so how can I not read it?

Once again the illustrations can’t help but tell the wonderful story of how frog disrupts a fancy dinner with boy’s family. He jumps in the saxophone, then smashes the drum, show more jumps in the salad that scares the women, then jumps in a drink and finally is thrown and boy’s family is asked to leave the fancy restaurant. show less