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The Frog Prince, Continued
After the Princess kissed the frog, he turned into a handsome prince and they lived happily ever after... or did they? The Princess can't stand the Prince's froggy habits - the way he hops around on the furniture, or sneaks off to the lily pond. The Prince is unhappy, too, and decides that it would be best if he were changed back to a frog. But finding a witch who will d...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
September 1st 1994
by Puffin Books
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Delightfully flippant dialogue and dark, stylized illustrations laced with familiar, fun-to-find details take us on a hilarious journey through the forest of fairy tales in this quest for missing marital bliss.
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You can listen in on our chat about this book on our Just One More Book! Children's Book Podcast.
Listen to our chat with author Jon Scieszka on JustOneMoreBook.com.
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This book is a fractured fairly tale of "The Frog Prince," it continues the story and shows that not all fairy tales end happily ever after. I really do enjoy that this book shows children the reality of fairy tales, it shows them that not EVERYTHING is going to end happily ever after and that is okay! I love the fairy tale genera although I think it sends a fairly unrealistic view of how life goes to children and sets them up for disappointment. Jon Sciezka is a great fractured fairy...more
The Frog Prince Continued was hilarious. It puts a twist on the “happily ever after” ending of fairy tales. It turns out, the prince and princess are not happy at all after the kiss that turns him back into a prince. The first opening of the story shows the last page out of the fairy tale The Frog Prince. It is a crinkled page torn out of its book and stuck in here to remind readers of how that story ended. The second opening is where The Frog Prince Continued actually starts. The book intro...more
I picked this book, noticing that is was written by Jon Scieszka, who also happened to write "The True Story of the Three Little Pigs" which was a book that I was a huge fan of when I was younger. In a similar sense, this book puts a twist on the "happy endings" at the end of fairy tales.
In fact, in this book the Frog Prince, and his princess are anything but happy. This book goes on to reveal that we can't all be happy all the time, but rather it is the effort tha...more
In fact, in this book the Frog Prince, and his princess are anything but happy. This book goes on to reveal that we can't all be happy all the time, but rather it is the effort tha...more
I remember reading this book sometime when I was younger, and being a little creeped out by the images, and the story itself. Reading it now, I absolutely loved both. The cover looks like the cover of an old fairy tale book, scribbled with “continued” in red ink. The detail is phenomenal for the cover; the illustrator seems to add texture to the cover painted on the cover. Inside, the illustrations look like they were drawn with a very fine pen, and colored in with very saturated colors. This ad...more
This book is a clever combination of many fairy tales into one. When the Frog Prince decides that he is not happy with the princess, he leaves and tries to find a witch to turn him back into a frog so he can live happily ever after. He runs into the witch that put sleeping beauty to sleep, the witch that poisoned snow white, the witch that abandoned hansel an gretel, and cinderella's fairy godmother. After no one believes him and he is almost killed numerous times, he realizes that he truel...more
All is not well in the land of fairy tales – the Frog Prince and his Princess are not living happily ever after! In fact, after a nasty fit by the princess, the Frog Prince decided that maybe it would be better if he were still a frog. He ran off to the forest to look for a witch to place a spell on him and return him to his froggy state. On the way, he meets, but is not helped by, various fairy tale witches – the ones from Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, and Hansel and Gretel; he even meets the fa...more
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Everyone who loves a fairytale with a twist, A great book to give to husbands or newlyweds.
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I love all of Jon Scieszka's picture books. This one is no exception. Just as the title says this is the tale of the Frog Prince after the "They Lived Happily Ever After. The End" happens. As in all marriages nothing is as "fairy tale" as it seems on the surface. But when the frog prince goes out to explore what else is out there he realizes that he is never going to get anyone better than his wife. A great book to give to every husband!
After the Princess kisses the frog and turns him into a prince, the Princess and the Prince live “happily ever after”, or so everyone thinks. This story, The Frog Prince Continued, picks up after the “happily ever after”, only the Princess and the Prince are not happy. In this story, the Frog Prince goes off to search for a which to turn him back into a frog, but the events of his search teach him what it really means to love and be happy. This story seems to put a realistic twist on traditional...more
American Library Association Notable Book Award (ALAN) 1992
The Frog Prince and the Princess are supposed to live, “happily ever after.” That isn’t the case in this clever twist on the traditional fairy tale. Jon Scieska writes a story describing life after the prince and princess run off together. Unlike a fairy tale, the prince and princess are not happy together at all. The princess is annoyed with the prince’s froggy habbits like hopping on the couch and sneaking off to t...more
The Frog Prince and the Princess are supposed to live, “happily ever after.” That isn’t the case in this clever twist on the traditional fairy tale. Jon Scieska writes a story describing life after the prince and princess run off together. Unlike a fairy tale, the prince and princess are not happy together at all. The princess is annoyed with the prince’s froggy habbits like hopping on the couch and sneaking off to t...more
This is a great and very entertaing addition to the frog prince fairy tale! The book cover's full spread depicts a book with the title of the actual book that the reader is about to read. The endpages are a green color with flies depicted on them, it is the wall paper that the frog prince and the princess share in their home during their "happily ever after". Or so it was supposed to be? The story picks up with a fairy tale page that ends the normal frog prince story and from there goe...more
This and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs were my introduction to fractured fairy tales. They are among the best. This book, I believe, is also my introduction to Lane Smith. I like his work.
The book picks up from where the traditional Frog Prince ended (they lived happily ever after). But they didn't. The prince and the princess squabble. She nags. He leaves.
But the prince learns through his experiences outside the castle that it can be much worse. He retur...more
The book picks up from where the traditional Frog Prince ended (they lived happily ever after). But they didn't. The prince and the princess squabble. She nags. He leaves.
But the prince learns through his experiences outside the castle that it can be much worse. He retur...more
The Frog Prince, Continued is a continuation of The Frog Prince. The point of view are through the eyes of the frog who is now a Prince from his kiss with the princess. He gets tired of the princess expecting so much out of him and runs off to try turning himself into a frog again. This story has a lot of other fairytale stories mixed in it to give it a little humor. This story was a cool way of changing the "happily ever after" ending that all the fairy tale books have. However, it do...more
1st-3rd grades
Scieszka illustrations were a great mix for the story. The colors were mainly based off of shades of green just like a frog would be. The only other few colors were very plain golds and reds which created a good balance between his cartoonized version of the story. The pages were colored from top to bottom with these detailed drawings. The story was a fun twist to the typical frog prince stories. The story is longer for a short story so it may be considered a read aloud...more
Scieszka illustrations were a great mix for the story. The colors were mainly based off of shades of green just like a frog would be. The only other few colors were very plain golds and reds which created a good balance between his cartoonized version of the story. The pages were colored from top to bottom with these detailed drawings. The story was a fun twist to the typical frog prince stories. The story is longer for a short story so it may be considered a read aloud...more
I LOVE THIS BOOK! I'm just a sucker for fairy tales, but this was honestly a great story. It was humorous and clever. I loved how in incorporated all the other fairy tales into one. It taught a good lesson too. Some times you just need to sit back and realize what you got. You don't know what you got till its gone.
The illustrations in this book was impeccable and full of detail. The pictures discretely included frog details. The more you looked at the pictures the more details one could fi...more
The illustrations in this book was impeccable and full of detail. The pictures discretely included frog details. The more you looked at the pictures the more details one could fi...more
The witches are great characters in this book. A fun book to show kids that not all stories that appear to have happy endings actually do. It would be fun to have kids guess which fairy tales the author is referring to while progressing throughout the story and talk about what happened in each.
I absolutely loved this book! This book was so funny! I loved the twist of the standard fairy tale in which everyone lives happily ever after. Throughout the story, Jon Scieszka, incorporated many characters from other fairy tales. I found this entertaining and liked how it added "another layer" to the story. The illustration formats varied. Some were across the gutter, bordered with a thick white, jagged border, jumping out of the border, and there were illuminated letters that ...more
Right off the bat, I loved the illustrations of this book. All the little details that can be easily missed add so much to the story, like the carpet pattern being lily pads and walls being wallpapered in dragonflies. I found this to be a vary clever way of emphasizing the fact that the prince was indeed at one time a frog. I also think the basic idea for this book is brilliant. We all grow up being told fairy tales where everyone always lives happily ever after but no one ever knows what really...more
Find out what happens after the fairy tale ends with “and they lived happily ever after”. This book tells of how happy the fairy tale couple really is after all is said and done.
I would love to read this to an upper elementary or a middle school student. This would be a great tool to use for a witting prompt. I could use this in a classroom to show what happens when the classic fairy tale is supposedly over. Ask students what they think really happens to the happy couple in the l...more
I would love to read this to an upper elementary or a middle school student. This would be a great tool to use for a witting prompt. I could use this in a classroom to show what happens when the classic fairy tale is supposedly over. Ask students what they think really happens to the happy couple in the l...more
Years ago a beautiful princess kissed a frog and he turned into a handsome prince. The ending of that story says they lived happily ever after but in this continuation we quickly learn otherwise. The Prince was a frog for many years and still has some frog-like characteristics that the Princess is constantly nagging him about. So he decides he would rather go back to being a frog. Can he find the witch who cast that original spell on him?
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As a kid I always wondered how every fairytale lived their happily ever after, and it it was a real happily ever after. Sometimes we as human beings, want everything to have a happy ending. This is seen through many movies, at the end everything resolves and there are no problems. However, that is not how real life is. It's important for students to know that they will encounter circumstances that will be unpleasant. This book does a good job at presenting that kind of scenario, even though the ...more
The frog prince was an excellent parody of fairy tales. I liked this twist on classic fairy tales more than any other one I have read, like the Stinky Cheese man. In the classroom, this book can be used to introduce the topic of fairy tales and/or the topic of point of view. The students can use this book as a tool to develop their own points of view on a creative writing project which would demonstrate that they understand the concept.
Overall, this book was entertaining and it evokes ...more
Overall, this book was entertaining and it evokes ...more
The question is - how could I not love a book that pays such delightful and hysterical homage to my favorite genre? Basically, it would have to be pretty bad and with Scieszka at the helm that's not likely. I think all kids eventually start to wonder what happens after 'happily ever after'? And even if they don't this kind of thinking and exploration can deepen their appreciation for the original stories. I remember when a high school English teacher posited some 'what ifs?' for Shakespeare'...more
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As always, Scieszka takes the ordinary fairy tales and turns them into a complex web of connections. I thought this was an entertaining read because it calls onto numerous tales throughout the story, and each time it makes you piece together which witch belongs to what story. It also has a great ending, showing that love is a strong bond. The illustrations are great too, showing the darkness of the forest that the prince must go in to.I think this is a great classroom book becuase, as said befor...more
The Frog Prince Continued is about what happens to the Frog Prince and the Princess after he turns into a prince. I have found that children love to imagine the possibilities of what life could be like for this couple. After brainstorming, I read the story, we discuss the similarities and differences and then I introduce the idea of expanding on other tales that that we have read. This leads into Writing Workshop where children have the chance to write their own sequel to a story we have read.
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After the princess kissed the frog, they lived happily for a while. But then they were so unhappy that they didn’t know what to do. The prince decides to find a witch who will turn him back into a frog. The first witch is afraid that he is trying to wake Sleeping Beauty, the second witch thinks he is trying to rescue Snow White, and the third witch, he discovers, lives in a gingerbread house. As he runs away he meets the Fairy Godmother, who tries to grant his wish but mistakenly turns him into ...more
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I thought that this book was an interesting change from the well known story of the frog prince. It answered the question of what happens after the "happily ever after". I liked how the book incorporated other characters from stories, such as the witches from Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, and Hansel and Gretel. The ending was a little odd to me, I guess because I didn't really see the fueding couple figure out a way to solve their problems. Instead, they decided they loved each othe...more
I really enjoyed this sequel to the original Frog Princess fairy tale. I remember having The Frog Prince read to me as a child and this version is more modernized and humorous than the first. The pictures appear as if they were ripped out of another book and pasted in, which I thought was unique. The detailing of the pictures was very vivid and they really seemed to jump out of the page at appropriate times throughout the story. The characters were all easy to relate to and the book even featu...more
What would happen if the Warren Brother cartoonist made books? Well, they'd probably be like Jon Scieszka's books. This is the second of his books we have read, and have enjoyed it throughly. The storyline is a good one about what happens after the "happily ever after" of a fairy tale. Also, the illustrations are fantastic as well. Personally, I think the highest recommendation a book can get is that it was initially read as a library book, and we enjoyed it so much that we need to buy...more
I thought this was the sweetest book.The frog felt like he wasn't being loved by the princess because she was annoyed with everything he was doing so he went to the magic lady! He decided that he was just going to go back to his princess so he kissed her and they both turned into frogs and they loved each other! The funny thing about this is that the frog prince ended as they lived happily ever after but they really didnt. They had problems and went through a little fighting stage and then they ...more
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Jon Scieszka is a writer and teacher. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and two children. Occasionally he has been known to howl at the full moon. --from the dust jacket of "The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs"
Jon Scieszka is also the author of the best-selling ALA Notable Book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as well as Knights of the Kitchen Table, a...more
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Jon Scieszka is also the author of the best-selling ALA Notable Book, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, as well as Knights of the Kitchen Table, a...more
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