Red-Eyed Tree Frog
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| Book: | Red-Eyed Tree Frog |
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| Author: | Joy Cowley, Nic Bishop |
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| Publisher: | Scholastic Press |
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Reviews
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Teddy bears and ducklings, eat your heart out—there’s nothing cuter than a red-eyed tree frog. And award-winning photographer Nic Bishop (The Secrets of Animal Flight) roamed through the rain forests of Central America with rolls and rolls of high-speed film to prove it. Preschoolers will be captivated by the slice-of-life story that Joy Cowley and Bishop tell of this adorable amphibian: “Here is an iguana. Frogs do not eat iguanas. Do iguanas eat frogs? The red-eyed tree frog does not wait to find out.” Sharp close-up photographs of near misses with a snake, a long froggy leap, a moth lunch, and a little, eyelid-exposing nap mesh perfectly with Cowley’s engaging narrative. The “Did You Know?” section in the back recounts the ins and outs, ups and downs of tree-frog life. (Ages 3 to 5) —Karin Snelson


