Let’s look at some of the best frog picture books available for children today and why they make such great educational tools for introducing kids to amphibians.
Frogs are some of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom and they make great subjects for children’s picture books.
Frogs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, from tiny tree frogs to giant bullfrogs, each with their own unique behaviors and habitats.
Picture books featuring these amphibians can be a fun way to introduce kids to this wonderful world while also teaching them about important conservation efforts that help protect frogs from extinction.
Add a few to your upcoming frog activities!
Frogs are very cool animals. Picture books about frogs can help teach kids more about them.
Reading these books can show kids how frogs look, how they act and where they live. It can also help them learn why helping to protect frogs from going extinct is important.
Fun Facts About Frogs
Frogs are some of the most interesting and diverse creatures on Earth. There is a lot to learn about frogs, and many fun facts that kids will love.
Here are some fascinating facts about frogs that children will enjoy learning:
1. Frogs make up over 6,000 species worldwide and can be found on every continent except Antarctica.
2. Frogs come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny tree frogs to giant bullfrogs that can weigh up to eight pounds!
3. Most frogs are nocturnal and spend their days hiding in water or burrowing underground.
4. Frogs have eyes on the top of their head, enabling them to see predators from above and below the surface of the water.
5. Some frogs can use their toe pads to climb walls, trees, and even hang upside down from branches!
6. Frogs are both predators and prey, eating insects, small fish, and other frogs.
Frog Picture Books
Frog picture books can help teach kids about these cool animals. The books show kids what frogs look like, how they act, and where they live.
They also explain why it is important to help protect frogs from going extinct. Reading these books can be a fun way for kids to learn more about frogs and their habitats!
From writing letters to going swimming, telling stories to finding lost buttons, Frog and Toad are always there for each other—just as best friends should be.
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 an extraordinary day on Pebble Island for three frogs when one of them discovers a beautiful white egg.
They've never seen a chicken egg before, but they're sure that's what this must be.
So when the egg hatches and out crawls a long green, scaly creature, they naturally call it . . . a chicken!
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.
Tad the tadpole spends every day with his awesome dad, and shares a lily pad with him at night.
It's always been that way . . . but little Tad is growing up, and quickly becoming as awesome--and large--as his dad.
As his new parts sprout, he's learning to swim and hop and croak just like Dad.
Dad is very proud, but when Tad's accomplishments carry over into nighttime--bringing lots of kicking and croaking in his sleep--the lily pad is no longer a bed for two.
Even Tad finally realizes it's time for a lily pad of his own, and all is well--at least until Dad realizes how much he misses Tad.
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.
Rambunctious Froggy hops out into the snow for a winter frolic but is called back by his mother to put on some necessary articles of clothing.
“We’ll have to move,” says Mother, after realizing the pond is too small. But moving a family of 999 young frogs is fraught with danger!
Hungry snakes are crawling through the grass. Hungry hawks are flying through the sky. A young frog makes a mighty tasty morsel.
Reading frog picture books can be a fun and educational way to introduce kids to the wonderful world of amphibians.
These stories provide an opportunity for children to learn about frogs’ unique behaviors, habitats, and conservation efforts that help protect them from extinction.
Through these stories, kids are able to develop an appreciation and understanding for nature and wildlife conservation that will last a lifetime.
What better way is there than through storybooks featuring one of the most fascinating creatures in the animal kingdom?