Being Frog
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
From award-winning author and photographer April Pulley Sayre comes a stunning photographic look at the fascinating lives of frogs.
A frog is a being.
It is watching.
It is seeing…
Frogs are amazing creatures, and this book offers young readers an up-close and revealing peek at their everyday lives. Follow them from egg to tadpole to froglet crawling up onto land for the first time. Watch them resting on a favorite log, searching for food, and leaping through the air. And see how frogs are unique, individual beings with rich lives all their own in the wild.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Focused on frogs' essential frog-ness rather than anthropomorphized interpretations of amphibian life, Sayre uses rich photographs and evocative language to explore how frogs might understand and experience their environments. Spare, poetic language with a loose sense of rhyme is paired with photographs documenting frogs at rest and in motion: "A frog must hunt./ It scans. It spies./ It crawls. It lunges./ It fails. Retries." Sayre's close-up photos have a crystalline lucidity, immersing readers in the animals' lush, watery world. Simple questions ("Does frog time fly? Or trail, snail-slow?") invite readers to consider how the world may look and feel to a frog. A robust author's note thoughtfully explains how the book was made, as well as the differences between anecdotal evidence and scientific study. Sayre's gentle argument "for me a made-up frog cannot match the beauty of a real frog a creature so alive in its pond world" persuades. Ages 3 8.
