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From Tadpole to Frog (Let's Read and Find Out Science)
From Tadpole to Frog - Let's Read and Find Out Science Author:Wendy Pfeffer, Holly Keller (Illustrator) An introduction to the life cycle of frogs, with additional facts about individual species on the last two pages. Sentences are simple, with questions and exclamations to help break up the informative text. Keller's clean, clear watercolor illustrations show a variety of pond animals and plant life through the seasons. Other books on this to... more »pic are generally geared to older readers, making this attractive picture book a good starting point for beginning readers interested in nature.
Wendy Pfeffer describes the amazing metamorphosis from tiny, jellylike egg, to little fishy tadpole, to great big bullfrog. Holly Keller has created the archetypal frog pond and we see it through the seasons as the tadpoles grow legs and lungs and eventually hop onto land: bullfrogs at last. "Well-designed ink drawings washed with soft-toned watercolors stretch across the double-page spreads, showing the action above and below water level. . . .an attractive, general introduction."« less