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Jigsaw Jones Mystery #27
The Case of the Frog-jumping Contest
Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stories, and quality chapter books for beginning readers? Look no further: Jigsaw and Mila are the best detectives on the market!
It's not easy being green! The carnival is in town and Jigsaw's friends are excited to enter their first ever frog-jumping contest. It's going to be grrrrrrr-eat! But when the carnival's champion jumping frog mysteriously disappears, Jigsaw and his partner Mila suspect foul play. These ace detectives are only a hop, skip, and a jump away from catching the frog-napper, but a bigger mystery remains...which one of them will have the frog with the highest jump? The competition is going to be toad-ally intense!
It's not easy being green! The carnival is in town and Jigsaw's friends are excited to enter their first ever frog-jumping contest. It's going to be grrrrrrr-eat! But when the carnival's champion jumping frog mysteriously disappears, Jigsaw and his partner Mila suspect foul play. These ace detectives are only a hop, skip, and a jump away from catching the frog-napper, but a bigger mystery remains...which one of them will have the frog with the highest jump? The competition is going to be toad-ally intense!
96 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2005
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About the author
James Preller
200 books142 followersJames Preller (born 1961) is the children's book author of the Jigsaw Jones Mysteries, which are published by Scholastic Corporation. He grew up in Wantagh, New York and went to college in Oneonta, New York. After graduating from college in 1983, James Preller was employed as a waiter for one year before being hired as a copywriter by Scholastic Corporation, where he was introduced (through their books) to many noatable children's authors. This inspired James Preller to try writing his own books. James Preller published his first book, entitled MAXX TRAX: Avalanche Rescue, in 1986. Since that time, James Preller has written a variety of books, and has written under a number of pen names, including Mitzy Kafka, James Patrick, and Izzy Bonkers. James Preller lives in Delmar, New York with his wife Lisa and their three children.
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January 5, 2024
Lost and/or stolen frog! I'm not sure exactly what to say about this mystery, other than it's very well-written! I feel like going into detail about my reasoning would spoil the answer, though, but it IS a very good and (more or less) happy ending!
I also appreciate the detail put into the differences between frogs and toads (which I thought I knew but once in a while see misinformation, which makes me doubt myself), although the frogs in this book seem curiously docile... granted, I've only ever seen frogs through a glass (well, plastic) container, and I *did* see what I thought was a frog in our yard, but that seemed well out of place since we're so far from a normal water source, and it was too sleek-looking for a toad... so... doubts.
(It most likely was a frog that was terribly lost. I don't know what happened to it, since I got bored of it, and it didn't seem at all concerned about me to run off by itself.)
Probably the only reason I might not recommend this book (and, all things considered, it's only vaguely a reason) is how it dates itself with the amounts of money used. I mean, $20 for the winner of the Longest Jump is "a lot of money" to the characters, but nowadays that would barely buy a child their age one toy, *before* tax. It's not as bad as, say, Encyclopedia Brown and his "25 cents per day plus expenses" fee, at least. Otherwise, a super cute mystery that's fun to read!
I also appreciate the detail put into the differences between frogs and toads (which I thought I knew but once in a while see misinformation, which makes me doubt myself), although the frogs in this book seem curiously docile... granted, I've only ever seen frogs through a glass (well, plastic) container, and I *did* see what I thought was a frog in our yard, but that seemed well out of place since we're so far from a normal water source, and it was too sleek-looking for a toad... so... doubts.
(It most likely was a frog that was terribly lost. I don't know what happened to it, since I got bored of it, and it didn't seem at all concerned about me to run off by itself.)
Probably the only reason I might not recommend this book (and, all things considered, it's only vaguely a reason) is how it dates itself with the amounts of money used. I mean, $20 for the winner of the Longest Jump is "a lot of money" to the characters, but nowadays that would barely buy a child their age one toy, *before* tax. It's not as bad as, say, Encyclopedia Brown and his "25 cents per day plus expenses" fee, at least. Otherwise, a super cute mystery that's fun to read!
November 7, 2016
The case of the Frog-jumping contest is the 27th book of a mystery book series called "a Jigsaw Jones Mystery". This time Stringbean and Jigsaw can't find his frog and he needs it to enter in a frog jumping contest, to win money! The group of friends set off on a adventure to try to find the frog! They follow the clues and rules out suspects in order to save the day and find the missing frog.
The cover of this book is what actually caught my eye, because I love frogs. When getting into the second chapter I came across a unusual characters name that just happens to share one my students in my classes name, and I had to keep reading so that I could share this book with my student! It's always more fun to read a book, when its got your name in it!
This book, and the rest of the serious would be a perfect add to your mystery section in you reading classroom. After reading about a few other of the books in the serious, they made me think of the Junie B Jones book series, which I enjoyed as a reader in elementary school!
The cover of this book is what actually caught my eye, because I love frogs. When getting into the second chapter I came across a unusual characters name that just happens to share one my students in my classes name, and I had to keep reading so that I could share this book with my student! It's always more fun to read a book, when its got your name in it!
This book, and the rest of the serious would be a perfect add to your mystery section in you reading classroom. After reading about a few other of the books in the serious, they made me think of the Junie B Jones book series, which I enjoyed as a reader in elementary school!
December 31, 2010
This one is written in the style of an adult mystery but with kids. Not my fav.
December 30, 2016
Jigsaw Jones Mystery series
July 9, 2013
the story was good and funny and a good story for children
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