If you plan to teach frogs or pond life this spring, you don’t want to miss this awesome list of frog books for preschoolers.
As you begin to plan out your frog activities, be sure to include a mix of both nonfiction books about frogs or fiction books featuring frog characters.
The books featured below are perfect for kids ages 3-6. You’ll find books that contain fun facts about frogs, books featuring silly frogs and their adventures, and more!
Your kids will love listening to you read these frog books to them as they look at the pictures. Which one will you choose to read first?
I love leaving a pile of theme-related books around our learning areas. Kids get intrigued by the images on the cover of the books. The next thing I know, they’ve picked up the book and started flipping through the pages.
After a few minutes of flipping through the pages, I ask if they’d like me to read the book to them (if they haven’t already asked me to read it).
I will stop almost anything to sit and read to a child. I want nothing more than to raise a whole generation of voracious readers!
Books About Frogs for Preschoolers
Fill your book basket with a great collection of frog books for children. Most of these books can be found at your local library or used bookstore.
From Tadpole to Frog: Watch a tiny tadpole grow into an adult frog in this book full of facts and photographs. Learn what tadpoles eat, how they survive, and how they transform into frogs.
Froggy Plays Soccer: It’s the day of the big game, and Froggy is ready. His soccer team is playing the Wild Things for the City Cup.
All Froggy has to do is remember the rule: “Head it! Boot it! Knee it! Shoot it! BUT DON’T USE YOUR HANDS!”
But Froggy’s busy doing cartwheels and picking daisies. Uh oh, Froggy! Here comes the ball!
Budding soccer players and Froggy’s many fans will welcome Froggy’s latest hilarious adventure.
There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog!: That zany old lady is back–and with a serious case of spring fever! This time she’s swallowing items to make the most of the season…with a beautiful garden!
With rhyming text and funny illustrations, this lively version of the classic song will appeal to young readers with every turn of the page–a wacky story for the first day of spring!
Frogs: In Explore My World Frogs, curious kids learn about the fascinating world of frogs, especially their growth from tadpole to full-grown frog and the relationship between baby frogs and their parents.
I Don’t Want to Be a Frog: Frog wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog. A cat, perhaps. Or a rabbit. An owl? But when a hungry wolf arrives—a wolf who HATES eating frogs—our hero decides that being himself isn’t so bad after all.
In this very silly story with a sly message, told in hilarious dialogue between a feisty young frog and his heard-it-all-before father, young readers will identify with little Frog’s desire to be something different, while laughing along at his stubborn yet endearing schemes to prove himself right.
How Does a Frog Grow?: With friendly, read-aloud text, beautiful photos and illustrations, and surprise flaps, the easy-to-follow pages explain the complete life cycle of a frog to young children.
The Wide-Mouthed Frog: From the Okefenokee Swamp comes a frog with a wide mouth that he just loves to use.
He’s particularly interested in the eating habits of other creatures found in the great outdoors, from the blue-feathered bird to a furry brown mouse.
Until one day, he meets a big green animal with lots of teeth who finds wide-mouthed frogs simply delicious.
The Lucky Green Frog: A short sweet story about a little lucky frog. He likes to complain a lot, until he meets a little mouse who challenges him to not complain, find out if he can actually do it!
It’s Mine!: Three selfish frogs live together on an island in the middle of Rainbow Pond. All day long they bicker: It’s mine! It’s mine! It’s mine! But a bad storm and a big brown toad help them realize that sharing is much more fun.
With characteristic clarity, simplicity and exuberance, Leo Lionni makes it possible for kids to see themselves through the antics of others who share our world.
Freddy the Frogcaster: Freddy the Frogcaster loves learning about the weather, and he’s known for having the best predictions in town. But what happens when the town picnic is almost ruined by a storm that catches the local frogcaster by surprise?
Freddy has to step in to save the day! Well-known Fox News broadcast meteorologist Janice Dean pens this exciting and hilarious tale about an aspiring weathercaster who can’t keep his eyes off the sky.
Children and adults will love the charming frog world Freddy lives in and the fun science lessons he shares.
I Am a Frog: For understanding amphibians, “I Am a Frog” follows the life of a tree frog and its importance to humans and the environment.
From metamorphosis to the first hop onto solid ground, kids will learn the basic science of frogs.
A Frog Ate My Sandwich!: What happens when two boys make friends with a sneaky, fun-loving, misbehaving frog? Chaos!
Caden and Nate meet a frog who secretly hops a ride with them to school. What could possibly go wrong? Everything!
This fun filled adventure is full of surprises, life lessons, and most of all, laughter to the very end.
Frog Activities for Preschool
Teaching Resources
This Frog Pond loose parts kit is perfect for pretending while reading Frog and Toad or any other froggy book! These items are perfect to add to homemade play doh or just on their own!
Learn how a tadpole turns into a frog. This felt board set shows a pictorial display of a frog’s life. With 5 stages and detailed felt pictures this set works well within a lesson on frogs, their life cycle, pond life, pond habitats or amphibians.