Growing Frogs

Growing Frogs is a nonfictional book teaching children how to raise their own frogs in aquariums at home. The book explains the importance of proper maintenance and releasing the grown frogs back into the wild. French's lesson also teaches about the biological life cycle of amphibians. This book is an excellent introduction to biology, and should be experimented with all parents and their children.

A girl and her mother experiment with growing frogs. They bring home some of the eggs from the pond, put them in a tank, and watch and talk about what they observe. The information is just the right amount for toddlers, and the illustrations are clear and cheery.

GROWING FROGS is an excellent book to teach children how to raise tadpoles and what to do when they turn into frogs. The author does an excellent job of using her personal experiences with her children to develop rules for caring for frogs and tadpoles. While reading this story, children learn about how tadpoles change into frogs. The author includes more detailed sidebar information for children to learn more about the different stages of a frog’s life. The colorful illustrations and detailed pictures help children want to read this story. The use of an index in the back helps give the reader an easier way to access particular information in the story. This story would make a great addition to a classroom that has tadpoles for pets!

A girl observes eggs growing into frogs before releasing them back into the pawn where they were originally fertilized. Just the right balance of wonder and information for primary students studying the life cycle of a frog, complimented by bright, cheerful illustrations.

A little girl and her mother decide to grow frogs in their home. The little girl discovers interesting facts about how frogs become frogs. This book is great for teaching children how frogs grow and why. While the little girl and her mother’s story is being told, there is a break in the book to give readers facts for better understanding. The illustrations are bright and colorful, which makes the book more appealing to children. This is a great read aloud book for children to read to learn more about science.

A beautifully illustrated, straight forward story about the life cycle of a frog. This story is perfect for young children.

This is a realistic fiction, but it could also be an informational book. It follows the story of a girl who raises a batch of frogs from eggs with guidance from her mother. Her mother tells her all about the stages that the frogs go through, and the girl learns all about how frogs grow. She was surprised and happy to find that the tadpoles had begun to grow legs. When they grew into adult frogs, the mother and her daughter let the frogs go, and came back to visit frequently. I might use this book if my classroom ever grew frogs, like the girl in this story. The reading level is about at the 2nd grade level.