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 JournalJonathan London is the author of many books for children, including I See the Moon and the Moon Sees Me, Like Butter on Pancakes and four other books about Froggy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780140562477
Publisher:	Penguin Young Readers Group
Publication date:	09/01/1998
Series:	Froggy Series
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	81,181
Product dimensions:	9.06(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.12(d)
Lexile:	490L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Jonathan London is the creator of twenty-five books about lovable and enduringly popular Froggy.  He is also a poet and a novelist. Jonathan and his wife live in Graton, California.

Frank Remkiewicz has illustrated numerous books for children, including the popular Froggy books by Jonathan London (Viking and Puffin). He lives in Sarasota, Florida.

Editorial Reviews

PreS-Gr 1In this fourth book for "Froggy" lovers, children are sure to relate to that "pit in the stomach" feeling that often comes with the first day of school. Froggy's biggest nightmare comes truehe shows up for school in his underwear. Luckily, that scenario is just a bad dream, and the big day proceeds without a hitch. This is a great read-aloud with sounds and words that encourage active participation. Remkiewicz's large, vivid cartoon illustrations show Froggy's amusing, priceless facial expressions as well as those of his family and assorted animal classmates. A charming story to calm those pre-school jitters.Kathy Mitchell, Gadsden Co. Public Library, Quincy, FL

School Library Journal

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