The Frog with the Big Mouth

by Teresa Bateman (Retold by), Will Terry (Illustrator)

Overview

In the rainforest, a frog with a very big mouth catches an enormous fly. The frog brags to a toucan, a coati, and a capybara. Wanting to brag just a little longer, he tells a jaguar. Guess what jaguars like to eat?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807592793
Publisher:	Whitman, Albert & Company
Publication date:	09/01/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Teresa Bateman is the author of many books for children, including The Bully Blockers Club and April Foolishness. She is a children's librarian and lives in Washington state.

Will Terry has illustrated more than twenty picture books including The Three Little Gators and Little Rooster's Diamond Button. He teaches illustration part-time at Utah Valley State College, creates ebook apps, and lives in Utah.

Read an Excerpt

The Frog with the Big Mouth

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By Teresa Bateman, Will Terry

ALBERT WHITMAN & Company

Copyright © 2008 Teresa Bateman
All rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8075-2621-7

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CHAPTER 1

Once there was a frog who lived in the rainforest by Iguazú Falls, where Argentina meets Brazil. He was a young frog, a new frog, a barely more than a pollywog frog, who was more mouth than body or brain, and still had much to learn.

One day, while eating with his family, he caught a big fly, a huge fly, an enormous fly!

He opened his mouth up wide, wide, wide, and gulped it down.

"Look at me!" he cried, with a braggy bounce. "I'm the Frog with the Big Mouth! I've eaten the biggest fly in the whole world. Don't you wish you were me?" his brothers and sisters shrugged and kept on eating.

so the Frog with the Big Mouth Set out to find someone else to impress.

Soon he caught sight of something with a bright orange bill and feathers then two eyes opened up above the orange bill and blinked at him.

"Hello! I'm the Frog with the Big Mouth!" the frog said with a happy hop. "I've eaten the biggest fly in the whole world! It's clear I've got the other frogs beat. Who are you, and what do you eat?"

"Well, said the bird. "I'm a toco toucan. I eat fruit and eggs and sometimes seeds. A tasty spider suits my needs. I don't chase flies, big ones or small. No, flies don't interest me at all."

(Continues...)

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Editorial Reviews

K-Gr 2

The locale here, the South American rain forest, refreshes the familiar story of a loud, hyperactive frog who boasts to other denizens about eating a huge fly, then queries them on their preferred diet. The setting balances the frog's comedy with information about toucans, coatis, capybaras, and jaguars, the last of whom observes our lucky hero's jumping talents. Endnotes with a paragraph on each animal reinforce the book's educational component. Terry's shiny, verdant rain forest capably offsets myriad greens with shadows of lavender, an electric-blue beetle, and wine-red berries. The spreads swirl with movement and beckon forward via fluid lines. The Frog with the Big Mouth brims with personality as he suspends from a tiny vine or leaps from a tree branch. This is an inventive version of a long-favored tale.-Gay Lynn Van Vleck, Henrico County Library, Glen Allen, VA

School Library Journal

A young Argentine wide-mouthed frog can't help but brag when he eats the biggest fly in the whole world. When his brothers and sisters disregard his accomplishment, the frog travels the rainforest, boasting of his fly-catching skills to the toco toucan, coati and capybara, asking what they like to eat and hopping away with a final "Don't you wish you were me?" Finally, he meets a jaguar who is interested-in eating him, that is. After narrowly escaping, the newly (self-)styled "frog with the big jump" sets off once again, bragging to and warning his rainforest companions. The frog's cumulative refrain and the animals' rhyming responses build tension and humor in this retelling of a traditional tale. Thick foliage in vibrant greens creates a lush setting, while exaggerated and energetic depictions of some of the rainforest's lesser-known animals add to the merriment. The author offers more information about these colorful characters (e.g., the popular nickname of this story's hero is the Pacman frog) in a concluding note. A big hit for storytime. (Picture book/folktale. 5-8)

Kirkus Reviews