Jump, Frog, Jump!

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 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 show more 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

Title: Jump, Frog, Jump
Author: Robert Kalan
Genre: Children’s Picture Book
Challenges: PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, A to Z Reading Challenge, 2009 Support Your Local Library, 20 Books in 2009, Pages Read Challenge, Young Reader's Challenge 2009, Spring 2009 Challenge,

Rating: 5/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 1981

From the back: this is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog – Jump, Frog, Jump! Don’t read this book aloud if you aren’t prepared to have your listeners chorusing these words. This perfect cumuliative tale might well be been entitled “Let’s Hear It For The Frog.” And hear it you will – for no one can read show more or listen to this cliff-hanger without involvement.

Mine: I LOVE Frogs so am always looking for books that have stories with frogs in them. This is one of the more enchanting one’s that everyone must read. The cute “Jump, Frog, Jump” is priceless even reading it by yourself you realize that it should be shouted out. show less

A fun exploration of a pond food chain in which the reader tells frog to jump and escape! At the end, a kind human boy lets frog go.

This book tells a story about a frog that gets into some hairy situations and has to jump his way out of them. The book repeats the whole story up to each point and repeats,"jump, frog, jump," on every other page. I gave this book 5 stars because it teaches repetition and memorization skills. I used to collect frogs and even had pet frogs when i was younger, so I really enjoyed this book. The illustrations are bright and cheerful. You can use this book for memorization and you could make a magnetic boar game and see if the children can get the events in the correct order. You could also use this when talking about things that can happen to animals in the wild.

Pages: 32
Reading Level: 2.1

Another repetitious book by Robert Kalan, Jump Frog, Jump! tells the story of how a frog jumps away from being captured. Similar to the story There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly, a class of young readers could really get into this book. I would likely use it as a read aloud book with strudent interactions.

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 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 show more color. But the nice thing that the illustrations do show is how the frog does get away. show less