Frogs by Nic Bishop
I haven’t reviewed a book like Frogs by Nic Bishop on my blog before and didn’t think I would when I checked it out from the library. But after reading it, I was really excited to share it with you. Frogs is geared for about first to third graders, but even my three year old enjoyed looking at it. And I learned a lot!
I had no idea that there were frogs (Ha! I just wrote blogs and had to go back and change it) called glass frogs that have skin that you can see through. You can see all of their insides. Or that there are frogs who dig themselves up to two feet in the dirt and can stay there for weeks until it rains. There are also frogs that go through winter by actually becoming partially frozen and then they thaw out. Other frogs can jump from tree and tree and actually glide for up to fifty feet.
Lots of fun facts and lots of amazing photos. They are huge, they are bright, and I couldn’t believe some of the frogs that Nic Bishop was able to catch on camera. What a fun, informative book. If you have somebody in the family fascinated with frogs, this would be the perfect book for them.
Nic Bishop website.
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I knew some could hibernate half-frozen, but see-through frogs? Gliding frogs? Wow. This sounds like a book I’d enjoy with my daughter. We found a frog (or a toad?) hanging around our garden last year and I’m wondering if he’ll reappear this spring.
on February 15th, 2009 at 6:30 am~sigh~ my oldest daughter is obsessed with frogs. We actually had at one point in time, 8 tree frogs, 5 toads, 2 pacman frogs, and 2 tomato frogs.
We convinced her finally that the toads would be happier in the creek out back. Then she traded her tree frogs for the family puppy. The other frogs are cool though. One tomato frog succumbed to what seemed like a stroke. It turned around in circles for about a week and then eventually became an ex-frog by falling into its water bowl. One Pacman frog died of a disease common to the breed. Two are better than the hoard we had before.
We still have frog stuffed animals, posters, figurines, and everything else.
We will have to give this one a look, even though I think we might have seen it.
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:24 amJeane – The see-through frog was amazing! You can see all of it’s organs and everything. I don’t think I want a frog though.
Jenn M. – You had 17 frogs in your house?! 17! My, oh my. That is an obsession!
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:09 pmMy daughter could probably tell you everything in this book.
Yes, 17 frogs and toads at one point. The tomato frogs and the pacman frogs came from our visit to a “frog farm”…I didn’t know such a thing existed either. My mom went to school with the owner and he gave my daughter frogs. He wanted to give her these huge nasty looking ones too and giant albino bullfrogs, but we went home with the smaller ones.
The tree frogs started with 2, and she would catch them and put them in the tank and I wouldn’t notice for a while. Convincing her to give them up was hard, but our new house has a cool creek out back and I convinced her that she would still be able to hear them at night.
By the way, male treefrogs are REALLY loud at night and toads make a sound like chirping birds.
We stick to frog stuffed animals now. I think she has about 20 different ones, usually found at garage sales and Goodwill stores while I am searching for books. I can’t complain at $.25 and they don’t eat.
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:19 pmShe just came up while I was writing the review and said, ” OH MOMMY, I don’t have THAT frog book yet!” which was of course followed by “will you buy it for me?” ~sigh~
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:21 pmI bet my kids would love to read this book. Jenn M., wow! That is a great story about the frogs. I’m glad you’ve been able to move on to stuffed frogs. (I mean stuffed animal frogs not stuffed frogs as in taxidermy. That would be a little much but it sounds like she would probably like it.)
on February 15th, 2009 at 9:54 pmAren’t glass frogs gorgeous? There’s a ton of frog paraphernalia around my house, since during my “frog phase”, friends and family all decided that what I needed were multi-packs of little plastic frogs, so now I have at least 50 of them, plus frog posters, frog statues, frog dishes, and frog stuffed animals.
on February 16th, 2009 at 7:33 am