18) The Wide Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner

Bibliographic Citation: Faulkner, Keith. The Wide Mouthed Frog. Illustrated by Jonathan Lambert. Dial, 1996. 16 pages. ISBN: 0803718756.

Format: Pop-up

Age Group: Ages 2-4 Years

Annotation: A wide-mouthed frog asks many animals what they eat, but he gets one terrifying answer.

Reflection: The Wide-Mouthed Frog is a pop-up book about a frog that asks what other animals eat and shares with them that he eats flies.  The book starts with the frog stating, “I’m a wide-mouthed frog and I eat flies,” which is repeated to each animal he interviews about their food choices.  The frog asks “What do you eat, _______?” and the animal replies with “I eat ______,” The frog asks as a bird, a mouse, and finally an alligator who replies with “I eat delicious wide-mouthed frogs.”  The frogs then stops what he’s doing, closes his lips to make his mouth small and says there’s not many of them around and jumps into the pond. 

Categorization Tags:  Juvenile Fiction, Toy and Movable Books, Specimens, Frogs, Animals, Diet,