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Red-Eyed Tree Frog, By Joy Crowley, Non-Fiction-- Natural
Science
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Joy
Crowley has written over 600 children’s books! She is from New Zealand.
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I liked the way
the information is presented—it would be a fun, informative book for young
children.
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The
story takes place in a swampy rain forest in Central America. It is a
photographic journey on which the reader follows one red-eyed tree frog over
one night (because the frogs are nocturnal).
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The
photographs are very close-up, and the few words that are used describe exactly
what is shown in the pictures.
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The
red-eyed tree frog is hungry, but there are many animals that it can’t eat for
different reasons, and some animals that want to eat it!
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If
it finds a meal It will be time to find a safe place to sleep through another
day
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The
book is suspenseful because each page only one or two new pieces of
information.
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The
photographs are larger-than-life—offering the reader lots of details to explore
visually—most of the information is presented in the photographs. This allows
new vocabulary to be understood directly. If you don’t know what a katydid is,
you won’t spend much time wondering because the page that says “It will not eat
the katydid.” has only one large photo of a katydid.
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The
book has a couple of informational pages at the back—which could be read
afterwards to reinforce the concepts and answer questions.
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I
would recommend this book for use as an informational text in emergent and
early literacy classrooms.
Image from-- http://deskarati.com/2011/10/27/red-eyed-treefrog/ and http://www.tuesdaysfrog.com/2011/09/on-our-shelves-vol-73-nic-bishop/
