Leaps and Bounce

by Susan Hood, Matthew Cordell (Illustrator)

Overview

Change comes to all who grow. Even tiny tadpoles. Follow them as they start out as small, rounded eggs, and then sprout wiggly tails, before leaping their way into the big wide world!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781423152347
Publisher:	Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Publication date:	03/15/2016
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Susan Hood (www.susanhoodbooks.com) has worked for Nick Jr., Scholastic, and Sesame Street and is the author of Mission: New Baby, Top Secret Info for Big Brothers and Sisters, illustrated by Mary Lundquist, The Fix-It Man, illustrated by Arree Chung; Spike, The Mixed-Up Monster, illustrated by Caldecott Honoree Melissa Sweet; and The Tooth Mouse, illustrated by Janice Nadeau. She lives in Connecticut with her husband and two daughters.

Matthew Cordell (www.matthewcordell.com) has illustrated more than a dozen picture books including Special Delivery by Philip C. Stead, What Floats in a Moat by Lynne Berry as well as several he has written himself, like New York Times Notable Best Picture Book Hello! Hello!, Another Brother, and Wish. He lives in Chicago with his wife, author Julie Halpern, and daughter and a son.

Editorial Reviews

2015-12-22
Changes are happening underwater—look closely and watch the fun as a clutch of eggs turns into leaping, bouncing frogs. A cluster of eggs, "round and spotted, / polka-dotted," waits beneath the water's surface, and readers are invited to wonder what's inside. The mystery doesn't last long—in just a few page turns, wiggling, squiggling creatures emerge, exploring their underwater environs. Several gatefolds add to the fun, as the changes literally unfold before readers' eyes. Tadpoles zip and zap, splish and splash across the page, smiling and leaping out of the water. But "changes come to all who grow," and soon the young amphibians sprout legs. In almost no time, they become "leaping, peeping, hopping, bopping" frogs! As in their charming Rooting for You (2014), Hood's energetic rhyming text is joyfully matched with Cordell's humorous illustrations. The wordplay is delightful, full of internal rhymes and bouncing rhythms. Interestingly, Hood never names the stages of frog development but instead encourages readers to notice the changes at each step. Cordell's smiling frogs, with their goggling eyes, are very similar to his loving, happy mama and baby frog in Lauren Thompson's Leap Back Home to Me (2011). Cheerful tadpoles and frogs are full of movement, clearly loving life in the pond. The life cycle of a frog becomes a joyful, energetic celebration of growing up. (Picture book. 3-5)

Kirkus Reviews