Tag: frogs

  • Frog Goes to Dinner by Mercer Mayer 1974 Analysis

    Frog Goes to Dinner by Mercer Mayer 1974 Analysis

    Frog Goes To Dinner (1974) is a wordless carnivalesque picture book by American author/illustrator Mercer Mayer, and the fifth in a series about a boy and his beloved frog. Wordless picture books are perhaps the most emotionally affecting, because they work with us at a deeper level. Frog Goes To Dinner works on an emotional […]

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  • Tad by Benji Davies

    Tad by Benji Davies

    Tad (2019) is a picture book written and illustrated by Benji Davies. This is an especially good mentor text for illustrators because I’ve never seen a better example of a fairly muted colour scheme that suddenly pops after the page turn at the end. I literally said, “Wow!”

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  • Frogs and Toads in Art and Storytelling

    Frogs and Toads in Art and Storytelling

    In stories, mice are to rats as frogs are to toads. Unlike hares and rabbits, toads and frogs are actually the same category of animal, but one has garnered a better reputation. I’ve heard ‘toad’ used as an insult, but I’ve only ever heard ‘froggy’ to describe the shape of someone’s mouth. Neither is especially […]

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  • The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter Analysis

    The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher by Beatrix Potter Analysis

    The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher (1906) is one of Beatrix Potter’s more popular stories, and is an excellent example of how to write a sympathetic main character. Publishers had been telling Potter since she wrote it in 1893 for her last nanny’s son that frogs aren’t cute and fluffy enough to warrant main character […]

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  • Frog Went A Courtin by John Langstaff Analysis

    Frog Went A Courtin by John Langstaff Analysis

    This month I wrote a post on Teaching Kids How To Structure A Story. Today I continue with a selection of mentor texts to help kids see how it works. Let’s look closely at Frog Went A-Courtin, a Scottish folk song from the 1500s, which was turned into an iconic picture book for children written by John […]

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