Frogs and Toads and Tadpoles, Too

Rookie Read-About Science

by Allan Fowler

What's the difference between a frog and a toad? The natural world comes alive for young readers (Ages 6-7) with Rookie Read-About "RM" Science! With striking, full-color photos and just the right amount of text, this series immediately involves young readers as they discover intriguing facts about the fascinating world around them.This book discusses the likenesses and differences between frogs and toads.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Animals, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

Reviews

[Rachel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Do you want to know the differences between a frog and a toad? This informational text gives the reader details about the similarities and differences between various frogs and toads. Read this book to find out interesting facts about frogs, toads, and tadpoles too!

The illustrations in this story are photographs. By seeing real-life photos, helps identify which amphibians are frogs and which ones are toads. This story is a good informational text to introduce to elementary-level students.

I would pair this story with other texts on amphibians. This also could assist students with science projects and extra information on the life cycle of a frog/toad. This is also a good resource to introduce informational texts and have students do more research on this topic.

"Frogs are usually found around marshes, ponds, or other wet places. Toads live mostly on dry land... Both are often brownish or dark green in color, with stripes or markings in other colors."

[Ronda · Rating 2 out of 5]

This title compares and contrasts frogs and toads, with a mention of tadpoles,using short sentences and featuring a nice index for lessons on parts of a nonfiction book (as compared to Tale of a Tadpole, which, instead of a standard index, only included photos with "words you know"). I read this title paired with the previously mentioned Tadpole title and one of London's Froggy books.

Photos tended to be dark and didn't show up very well with my document camera/projector set-up.

[Liliana Jaramillo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Beautiful book where we can see a great variety of toads, frogs with their differences and similarities. Wide vocabulary, allowing us to work with the children the colors, sizes, as well as different areas where they live and their sounds. At the end of the book we find each of the photographs of different toads with their respective names.

[Shannon · Rating 3 out of 5]

A bit skimpy, as rookie read-about science books go. This is the first place I've gotten a really REALLY close picture of frog eggs, though, so I gave an extra star for that.

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