Froggy Goes to School

by Jonathan London, Frank Remkiewicz (Illustrator)

Overview

Froggy's mother knows that everyone's nervous on the first day of school. "Not me!" says Froggy, and together they leapfrog to the bus stop—flop flop flop. Froggy's exuberant antics will delight his many fans and reassure them that school can be fun.

"This is a great read-aloud with sounds and words that encourage active participation...A charming story to calm those pre-school jitters."
—School Library Journal

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780670867264
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	08/01/1996
Series:	Froggy Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	10.38(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.34(d)
Lexile:	490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jonathan London has written many books about his most popular character, Froggy. Jonathan also writes novels and poetry, as well as other picture books. He lives in Graton, California. Follow him at jonathan-london.net.
 
Frank Remkiewicz has illustrated all the Froggy books, as well as many other children’s books. He has also created art for posters and greeting cards. He lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida.
 
For more about Froggy, visit: www.penguin.com/froggy

Editorial Reviews

The fourth book about Froggy begins with a nightmare many kids will recognize: he finds himself at school in only his underwear. Luckily, it was all a bad dream. He wakes up in his bed and gets all dressed up for his first day at school. He's so nervous he can't pour milk on his bowl of flies for breakfast. In class he has to learn to keep his voice down and pay attention, but his ebullient performance at circle time is a great success. The big, bright cartoon illustrations pick up the silliness of nervous Froggy, and children will laugh at his innocence and sympathize with his jitters.

Hazel Rochman

Froggy's back (Froggy Learns to Swim, 1995, etc.) and on his first day of school, he wakes up late and goes to class in his underwear! No, that's only a dream—Froggy's parents wake him up just in time and they have breakfast together before leapfrogging to the bus stop. At school, Froggy gets a name tag, falls off his chair, and teaches the class—and the teacher—and the principal—how to swim, an act that includes singing "Bubble bubble, toot toot. Chicken, airplane, soldier." When his parents pick him up at the bus stop at the end of the day, they discover that he has forgotten his lunch box in school. " `Oh, Froggy. Will you ever learn?' said his mother. `That's why I'm going to school, Mom!' "

The accessible writing has plenty of gratifying opportunities for funny sounds when read out loud, and is also endearingly wry: "He liked his name. It was the first word he knew how to read. It was the only word he knew how to read." Remkiewicz's bright watercolors feature punchy, bouncy, bug-eyed animals wearing emphatically exaggerated expressions: This bunch is easy to love.

Kirkus Reviews