| A Frog in the Bog | 
 enlarge | Author: Karma Wilson
Creator: Joan Rankin
Publisher: Aladdin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  20 reviews
Sales Rank: 25220
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 10.8 x 8 x 0.3
ISBN: 1416927271
EAN: 9781416927273
ASIN: 1416927271
Publication Date: February 27, 2007
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 Fun for everyone! August 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is especially wonderful because it combines Wilson's wonderful talent for rhyming with a short counting lesson and a story with a twist. It's also fun for parents to read, and the illustrations have fun twists that make the book enjoyable night after night!
 Great Book October 6, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is fun and easy to read and keeps my child's interest!
Great for bedtime reading September 21, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My three year old daughter loves the book specially saying out the paragraphs loud with me. It has also diversified her reading out of TV and Disney characters based books.The photographs are drawn very beautifully and should appeal more as she gets older.
A really fun book August 29, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A great rhyming book to read to your kids, with lovely illustrations. Perhaps more for little boys because of the subject matter but a lot of fun.
I've read this countless times, but... February 4, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
...My four-year old son clamors for it again and again.
And why not? Karma Wilson and Joan Rankin's simple, yet witty tale of a frog that bites off more than he can chew is absolutely charming. From his insatiable appetite ("what a hog that frog") that slurps one tick, two fleas, three flies, four slugs and five snails right into an ever-expanding gullet, to the surprise of his life at the end of the tale, this frog on a half-sunk log in the middle of a bog is slimy fun.
Not only are the watercolors by Rankin picture perfect and lighthearted, but the Cajun-inspired meter of Wilson's verse just lilts right off the old tongue, even if the closest you've ever been to "N'Awlins" is New York City. Everything in this book works, from the word play to the expressions on the faces of the bugs crammed inside the frog's stomach.
Nothing gives me more pleasure than to have my child so excited to read a book, even if he's heard the story a thousand times. As a youngster starting to read in spurts, this book has encouraged him to read it all by himself. He wanted to make sure he knew all the words. What better recommendation can a parent give than that a book inspires a child to want to be a better reader!
I probably would not have picked this one up at first glance, but now I know that dad doesn't always judge books well by their covers. So I guess even a four-year old can teach a forty-two year old a thing or two about great literature.
Get the book. Your kids will love it (as Justin Wilson, the Cajun Chef used to say), "I geh-rawn-tee!"
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