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Am I a Frog?
Nonfiction for new readers! Egg to tadpole to frog. This level G science book is perfect for first graders to read on their own!
You started in an egg.
You hatched.
You ate.
You grew.
A tadpole swims, breathes, eats, rests, climbs, and grows into a frog . . . when he jumps up and catches a dragonfly. An elegant, beautifully illustrated life cycle book by a highly regarded author and illustrator of books for young children.
A chart in the back of the book shows nine stages of the frog's development.
For early-to-mid first graders, Level G books feature more complex storylines than prior levels, and a wider variety of structure and punctuation. Illustrations offer support for decoding the more challenging vocabulary words introduced.
The books in the award-winning I Like to Read series are especially created for new readers and are leveled using Fountas & Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high-quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read again and again with their parents, teachers, or on their own!
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
You started in an egg.
You hatched.
You ate.
You grew.
A tadpole swims, breathes, eats, rests, climbs, and grows into a frog . . . when he jumps up and catches a dragonfly. An elegant, beautifully illustrated life cycle book by a highly regarded author and illustrator of books for young children.
A chart in the back of the book shows nine stages of the frog's development.
For early-to-mid first graders, Level G books feature more complex storylines than prior levels, and a wider variety of structure and punctuation. Illustrations offer support for decoding the more challenging vocabulary words introduced.
The books in the award-winning I Like to Read series are especially created for new readers and are leveled using Fountas & Pinnell standards. Acclaimed author-illustrators--including winners of Caldecott, Theodor Seuss Geisel, and Coretta Scott King honors--create original, high-quality illustrations that support comprehension of simple text and are fun for kids to read again and again with their parents, teachers, or on their own!
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
32 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 25, 2022
12 people want to read
About the author
Lizzy Rockwell
53 books20 followersLizzy Rockwell is an illustrator whose artwork can be seen in picture books, magazines, games and on walls. She studied art and art history at Connecticut College, and drawing and illustration at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
Lizzy is the illustrator of over 25 children's books by a variety of authors including her mother, Anne Rockwell. She is the author/illustrator of eleven books including The All-Together Quilt, Plants Feed Me, How Do You Feel?, Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition, and The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness.
Lizzy has two grown sons, and lives and works in Bridgeport, CT with her husband, Ken Alcorn, a high school social studies teacher. Lizzy likes to quilt, cook, hike, paddle, and grow things in her garden.
Lizzy is the illustrator of over 25 children's books by a variety of authors including her mother, Anne Rockwell. She is the author/illustrator of eleven books including The All-Together Quilt, Plants Feed Me, How Do You Feel?, Good Enough to Eat: A Kid's Guide to Food and Nutrition, and The Busy Body Book: A Kid's Guide to Fitness.
Lizzy has two grown sons, and lives and works in Bridgeport, CT with her husband, Ken Alcorn, a high school social studies teacher. Lizzy likes to quilt, cook, hike, paddle, and grow things in her garden.
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October 24, 2022
Green-filled illustrations, created with watercolor washes and the use of digital tools, accompany a simple story of identity as a tadpole wonders if it could possibly be a frog. The tadpole's questions are in a dark-violet font while the responses of the narrator who addresses him appear in black. The images and text show off the various stages of the creature's growth as he moves through various stages, needing to live in the water to survive, but eventually being able to go back and forth from water to air, and finally, leaping into his destiny as he catches a meal with his agile pink tongue. Perfect as an introduction to the life cycle of a frog, a topic that always seems to fascinate youngsters, this book provides plenty of information about frogs without being too dry. Even the endpapers are worth a second look as the many tadpole eggs laid by a frog float near the surface of the water while other creatures busily go about their business. And all that green is ever so easy on the eyes. Part of the I Like to Read series intended for early readers and first graders, this title is sure to be a hit and call for repeated reading.
February 5, 2024
Am I A Frog is about a tadpole if he is a frog and continually getting the answer , "not yet but soon". As the the tadpole goes through each stage he asks similar questions which are explained with accompanying pictures. It showed the life process of a frog without dissection and appropriate for younger children as bedtime or educational reader.
I liked how it felt like I was going along with the tadpole who showed curiosity on when he would grow up into his identity. It was easy to follow along with as it also involved the narrator continually having a conversation with the animal. Also it made you want to tell the character the identity was not a fish or the other animals that he swims across throughout the lake.
I would definitely use this as a read aloud in my classroom especially when talking about amphibians or even a unit about the difference between the animal taxonomy categories. It would also be a good for a private library in nonfiction category which would allow students to explore new genres. You could also use this in activity of drawing the cycles of the frog after having students read it at home.
I liked how it felt like I was going along with the tadpole who showed curiosity on when he would grow up into his identity. It was easy to follow along with as it also involved the narrator continually having a conversation with the animal. Also it made you want to tell the character the identity was not a fish or the other animals that he swims across throughout the lake.
I would definitely use this as a read aloud in my classroom especially when talking about amphibians or even a unit about the difference between the animal taxonomy categories. It would also be a good for a private library in nonfiction category which would allow students to explore new genres. You could also use this in activity of drawing the cycles of the frog after having students read it at home.
May 4, 2023
This is a solid nonfiction choice for early readers, making the life cycle of a frog easy to understand. The language is simplistic and the illustrations are cute.
January 31, 2025
Very scientific, and probably good for a lower elementary aged child.
July 23, 2025
An easy-to-read life cycle of a frog book.
August 1, 2022
Solid early reader showing the development from tadpole to being a frog. Some difficult words - hatched, started, gills, breathe.
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November 23, 2022very simple exploration of tadpole to frog
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