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Book Description
Every child should experience the excitement of finding tadpoles and watching them grow, and this lift-the-flap board book perfectly captures the fun of this experience.
With friendly, read-aloud text, beautiful photos and illustrations, and surprise flaps, the easy-to-follow pages explain the complete life cycle of a frog to young children.
Published in association with the RHS, this entertaining nature book makes a wonderful gift for preschoolers. They’ll discover frogs in a garden – hiding under leaves, sitting on lily pads, and jumping into ponds with a plop! And they’ll follow the lift-the-flap story, learning how a frog grows- one mummy frog lays her eggs in frogspawn, then close-up photos show the tadpoles hatching, growing legs, their tails shrivelling up, and a little froglet becoming a frog.
There’s also information on how frogs are helpful to gardens, how to make safe places for them, plants they like, differences between frogs and toads, and the variety of frogs around the world – from Wallace’s flying frog of Southeast Asia and South America’s dyeing poison dart frog, to the European agile frog, Australia’s ornate burrowing frog, and the banded bullfrog, found in Asian countries, including China and India.
With a fun approach to life cycle science for young learners, RHS How Does a Frog Grow? is an informative picture book to share and enjoy.
eleanor owens –
Life cycle
Great colour and visual, good quality and the children love the pop ups.
N A Oozeer –
Great book
Great, lovely realLife pictures
Healy reader –
marvellous book; much loved by 2/5 year olds. Had info not known to parents,
high quality book; very instructive and educational, lovely flap picutres
poppyseed –
Book had 2 pages missing!
The Book I have received has 2 pages missing (shown in the amazon images as the lift the flap frog spawn), don’t know if this was just my copy, a ‘faulty’ batch, or if they have now been illiminated these page from the book to cut costs. Have returned for a refund.
Eric Baker –
Colourful and accurate frog life cycle book for young ones
This DK non fiction board book is produced with the help of the Royal Horticultural Society so we can be sure that is is factually correct. As usual with DK books, it is strongly made and colourful, with the added delight of lift up flaps on some of the pages. As well as taking you through the life cycle of a frog there are some good sections on “frog facts” and habitats around the world. The target age range is given online as 3 to 5, I would say it can extend older than that as there is plenty of new vocabulary here. A very useful book to have in early years and KS1 classrooms as well as for learning at home.The one addition I thought could have enhanced the book is the circular diagram of the life cycle on the final page – it would be lovely to have this a wheel you could turn and reveal the pictures peek-a-boo style. But overall, a good book on a fascinating topic .
Stusie –
A nicely presented book on a fascinating subject.
This is a really nicely presented board-book from the RHS and DK about the life-cycle of the frog. How Does a Frog Grow? has a decent sized facing of approx. 8 1/2 inches square. There are 16 thick board pages, many of which have large lift up flaps that reveal even more hidden facts and pictures. The artwork is bright and vibrant with a lively mixture of illustration and photography. The main life-cycle of the frog is followed in the larger, bolder text on each page, but there are lots of interesting factlets written in a smaller lighter text. My son has been learning about mini-beasts and life-cycles in Year R at school, and this is a perfect book to support that learning at home. Plus, it’s just a really nicely presented book on a subject that’s universally fascinating to kids and grown ups alike.
TheLibrarian –
Beautiful and educational board book
This is a chunky board book about the life cycle of frogs. This is a beautifully illustrated book that clearly explains everything in language a child will understand. Some of the pages have flaps that can be lifted up which adds interest. They aren’t very easy to lift up when the book is new as you really need to slide your nail under the flap to get them to unstick the first time. I suggest you go through and unstick them before giving this book to a child or they will end up getting damaged.
Emile Zola reader –
Educational, entertaining, and a robust build.
This is a good quality board book; the pages are robust, and the layouts are clear, colourful and uncluttered. There are seven lift-up-and-reveal flaps, and these are made of thick card, and won’t rip easily. There are photographs and humorous illustrations on every page, and the text is short and pitched perfectly for young children i.e. “the mummy frog and the daddy frog” etc.This is a very good educational and fun book detailing the lifecycle of frogs and their different habitats i.e. deserts, jungles, cold snowy climates – in fact, everywhere – and I highly recommend it.
John D’Arc –
Frog Book
High quality childrens book from RHS and DK.Teaches young children about the lifecycle of a frog, from spawn to tadpole to adult.Suitable for ages 3 to 5 (roughly).Fun design/presentation and high quality thick pages (16 in total).
J.Cats –
sweet little book
A great toddler book with really bright bold coloured pages printed on good thick cardboard that is easy for a baby to turn. The book has great pictures and the writing is nice and simple/easy to read. The story follows the development from tadpole to frog in a fun and interesting story with lift and flap bits and beautiful bold colours.