Caldecott Honor winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, colour, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal. Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features - what’s not to love about frogs?
In this magnificently illustrated picture book, Caldecott Honor winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore one of the world’s most diverse - and most threatened - animals. With more than 5,000 different frog species on the planet, in every colour of the rainbow and a vast number of vivid patterns, no creatures are more fascinating to learn about or look at. Jenkins and Page present a stunning array of these intriguing amphibians and the many amazing adaptations they have made to survive. AGES: 6 to 9 AUTHORS: Steve Jenkins has written and illustrated many nonfiction picture books for young readers, including the Caldecott Honor-winning What Do You Do with a Tail Like This? His books have been called stunning, eye-popping, inventive, gorgeous, masterful, extraordinary, playful, irresistible, compelling, engaging, accessible, glorious, and informative. He lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife and frequent collaborator, Robin Page.