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The Wide Mouth Frog.
Deborah Lea Mott.
Preschool - grade 2 / Ages 3 - 7.
** /4
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The little frog approaches a bear, a cow, and a snake saying to each of them: "Hello. I'm a wide mouth frog. I like to eat flies. Who are you?" As each one identifies itself and says what it likes to eat, we fear what the snake is going to say and do. But little frog outwits the snake. I would have liked to have seen a picture of little frog making a giant leap at this point to add variety to the illustrations because it was not quite clear exactly "how" he outwitted the snake.
The little book is printed on good quality paper but is bound with staples, making it short-lived for a school library. It would make a great gift for small children, though, or for a teacher to read to her/his kindergarten-aged class.
Recommended with reservations.
Joan Payzant is a former teacher and teacher-librarian from Dartmouth, Nova Scotia.
Deborah Lea Mott has illustrated her own book with delightful pen and ink line drawings and has added colour to them, giving each page of the text a lively appearance. The Wide Mouth Frog will appeal to small children, and the story has a moral - don't approach strangers. I'm not sure about that word "approach", though. Is it in a small child's vocabulary? If it isn't, it probably should be.
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