Story Title: I Saw a Bullfrog
Author: Ellen Stern
Illustrator: Ellen Stern
Genre: Poetry
Summary/Characters: This poem explores animals that have strange names, like a bullfrog or tiger shark. The poem's words reveal characteristics about each of the animals while the illustrations combine their bodies. For example, the bullfrog illustration has a bull's head with a frog's behind. At the end of the poem, the animals are realistically illustrated giving the children a chance to see what they really look like.
Comments: This is a fun poem to read to children. The pictures are silly, so the children get a laugh, but they also learn fun little facts about animals at the same time. It has good rhythm, and the rhyming words are appropriate, not farfetched. I especially like that the author/illustrator included real drawings of the animals at the end, so that the children do not walk away thinking that the silly illustrations during the poem are realistic.
Grade Level: Preschool/Kindergarten
Author: Ellen Stern
Illustrator: Ellen Stern
Genre: Poetry
Summary/Characters: This poem explores animals that have strange names, like a bullfrog or tiger shark. The poem's words reveal characteristics about each of the animals while the illustrations combine their bodies. For example, the bullfrog illustration has a bull's head with a frog's behind. At the end of the poem, the animals are realistically illustrated giving the children a chance to see what they really look like.
Comments: This is a fun poem to read to children. The pictures are silly, so the children get a laugh, but they also learn fun little facts about animals at the same time. It has good rhythm, and the rhyming words are appropriate, not farfetched. I especially like that the author/illustrator included real drawings of the animals at the end, so that the children do not walk away thinking that the silly illustrations during the poem are realistic.
Grade Level: Preschool/Kindergarten
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