Green Wilma, Frog in Space by Tedd Arnold

Wherever Wilma goes, surprises await her - and readers of this irresistibly funny fable. At school, Wilma's teachers are appalled by her unusually colorful antics. I didn't read the text to them, but showed some of the pictures and talked about them. Wilma's parents don't know quite what to do when their daughter wakes up green and requests bugs for breakfast. 'Absurd and action-packed. Wherever Wilma goes, surprises await herand readers of this irresistibly funny fable. At school, Wilmas teachers are appalled by her unusually colorful antics. This book also shows some of the things that frogs eat, as well as what eats them! Though I generally prefer photographs for non-fiction, the illustrations in this book are very realistic. Wilmas parents dont know quite what to do when their daughter wakes up green and requests bugs for breakfast. Its a warp-speed comedy sure to please the fans of Tedd Arnolds Geisel Honorwinning Hi Fly Guy, his beloved Parts books, and especially Green Wilm.

It also shows a few of the brightly colored poison dart frogs, which I supplemented with a number of photograghs of poison dart frogs I had copied and printed onto a single piece of paper as I find them truly amazing (there are also a couple of books just on poison dart frogs, one by Julie Murray, and another by Carmen Bredeson). I really like this book a lot, as it covers many things about frogs, including how they differ from toads, pictures of many different North American frogs, including tree frogs, showing how they vary in size, coloring, and markings. In a case of mistaken identity, the alie. As usual, we started with our welcome song, but then I did a longer introduction than usual, expanding it into a bit of a lesson about frogs using the wonderful non-fiction book All About Frogs by Jim Arnosky. Green Wilma is so determined to catch a tasty fly that she doesnt notice a family of galactic visitors to her pond.

Green Wilma, Frog in Space by Tedd Arnold