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Flora the Frog
Flora is asked to be a frog in the class play, but she is dismayed. Frogs are green and fat, and she is afraid that everyone will laugh at her.
When Flora's mother and Aunt Jo make a frog costume for her, Flora promptly throws it up into a tree. To make matters worse, she later lies to her mother that all her friends at school liked the costume.
But Flora makes a remarkable discovery after angrily throwing her ball over the backyard fence, where it lands next to a pond with three frogs jumping and sparkling with water drops. Slowly she realizes that being a frog in the play may not be so bad after all.
Author Shirley Isherwood shows young readers that a little imagination can make anything—even a fat, green frog—special and fun. Illustrator Anna C. Leplar's joyous watercolors bring the appealing characters to life in this hilarious, relatable tale about honesty and big feelings.
When Flora's mother and Aunt Jo make a frog costume for her, Flora promptly throws it up into a tree. To make matters worse, she later lies to her mother that all her friends at school liked the costume.
But Flora makes a remarkable discovery after angrily throwing her ball over the backyard fence, where it lands next to a pond with three frogs jumping and sparkling with water drops. Slowly she realizes that being a frog in the play may not be so bad after all.
Author Shirley Isherwood shows young readers that a little imagination can make anything—even a fat, green frog—special and fun. Illustrator Anna C. Leplar's joyous watercolors bring the appealing characters to life in this hilarious, relatable tale about honesty and big feelings.
- GenresPicture Books
32 pages, Hardcover
First published September 7, 2000
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Shirley Isherwood
41 books3 followersShirley Isherwood was born in Yorkshire but her family moved to London soon after her birth. She returned to the North of England just before the Second World War and began her working life as a dressmaker. Since starting to write, however, she refuses to even sew on a button! Shirley has written about thirty children's books and many series for children's television. Her books have been published in France, Germany, Spain, Sweden and America.
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Displaying 1 - 7 of 7 reviews
August 10, 2023
Heart warming and cute with lovely pictures. Could empathise with the protagonist, we have all been there and sometimes we are still there.
September 9, 2020
* Nice story; could be read to small children before giving out parts for the school Nativity (or other play) to emphasise that each part is important and not everyone will be the animal/part they wished for.
September 22, 2012
I liked this book. I thought it taught a good lesson about why it is so important to express your feelings about things. I didn't like the fact that she lied to her mom and threw the frog in the tree. But, also that goes along with the lesson at hand. She threw the frog in the tree and felt bad, then lied to her mom. She let her feelings build up inside her but didn't express them until she saw the real frogs in the pond. In the end her mom helped her and made it so that she was a pretty frog and that made her feel better.
Learning Experience: Learn to express how you feel, and if you don't like something change it so that you do. Have a cd with at least five different songs. Play a song that is happy, sad, crazy mad, exciting, and sluggish. Then have the children tell you how each song makes them feel and act it out using their bodies.
Learning Experience: Learn to express how you feel, and if you don't like something change it so that you do. Have a cd with at least five different songs. Play a song that is happy, sad, crazy mad, exciting, and sluggish. Then have the children tell you how each song makes them feel and act it out using their bodies.
June 8, 2011
On one level, this is a fun, sweet book with a good ending. It is a great read-aloud, and teaches some good morals.
On another level, this book can be very helpful for adults working with a child who may have difficulty expressing their thoughts and concerns. Reading the book together could be used to open conversations about how to talk about things that are hard. Also, adults may want to read and ponder on their own in order to understand children. Sometimes children do things that are wrong, including telling lies, not because they have bad motives, but because they don't know how to say what they really want to say.
On another level, this book can be very helpful for adults working with a child who may have difficulty expressing their thoughts and concerns. Reading the book together could be used to open conversations about how to talk about things that are hard. Also, adults may want to read and ponder on their own in order to understand children. Sometimes children do things that are wrong, including telling lies, not because they have bad motives, but because they don't know how to say what they really want to say.
May 17, 2010
This was one book that I did not like to well only because I feel that this story is teaching children that it is alright to do wrong things with no consequences. Throughout the story Flora does things that are not acceptable: she throws the costume in a tree, lies to her mother about the teacher and students liking the costume and refuses to participate with the rehearsal for the play and nothing happens to her. There are no consequences for her actions. I think that younger children could get the wrong impression after reading this book.
December 5, 2010
I would use this book in the classroom to illustrate to children why we shouldn't lie to each other and although you do not like something, you can make it what you want by simply using your imagination. This is a good book for first grade children to illustrate the message of giving it a try first.
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