Frog & Friends

by Joyce Wan

Who swims with the fish, hops with the frogs, and paddles with the ducks? Open the final fold-out page to reveal the surprise ending of this delightful “What Am I?” riddle book. With vivid, lovable illustrations and simple text, this delightful board book introduces young children to some of nature's cutest critters and their natural habitat.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books

14 pages, Board Book

First published June 27, 2013

About the author

Award-winning author-illustrator, Joyce Wan, designed a greeting card when she was in first grade for a city-wide greeting card design contest. The design won first place and was subsequently sold through a major department store. Twenty years later, that design would inspire her to launch her own design studio called Wanart where she was creating greeting cards again. These greeting cards led her to children's book publishing after meeting an art director at a trade show. Her first book GREETINGS FROM KIWI AND PEAR was published in 2009. Since then she has published over 2 dozen books for children including the best-selling YOU ARE MY CUPCAKE. Her books have now sold a total of over one million copies worldwide.

Joyce is the recipient of the Mills-Tannenbaum Award for Children's Literacy from Reach Out and Read of Greater New York which recognizes children’s book authors dedicated to promoting a lifelong love of reading in young children.

Joyce is originally from Massachusetts and currently lives in New Jersey with her husband and daughter. She hopes to spread joy through all her work and inspire people to embrace the spirit of childhood and follow their dreams.

Reviews

[Meredith]

An anthropomorphic habitat describes the animals that interact with it and invites the reader to guess what it is.

This board book introduces to animals and the place in which they live, which is revealed in the foldout final page.

Habitat: pond.
Animals: ducks, beaver, tadpoles, frogs, turtles, snails, dragonflies, fish, and fireflies.

[Christina]

Sometimes I have trouble finding things I really like in the board book format. Then I stumbled upon this used book for my one year old yesterday. Carefully chosen and limited text. A surprise feature at the end. Worth far more than I paid for it. Love that the theme is more unique than your average animal book.

[Ken]

A simple book, easy read for small children. A good thought provoking story

[Dianna]

The pictures in this book are so cute! I love the bold lines and the bright colors, and so did my four-year-old daughter. I'm sure babies would love these pictures. (Five stars for the pictures.)

The text I didn't love or hate. It goes through clues, such as "I paddle with the ducks" and "I twirl with the dragonflies," and the answer at the end is the pond. The clues didn't all fit with the answer to me, and also I don't think much of the target baby-toddler audience are going to understand. (Three stars for the text.)

But! Babies don't care. They're mostly just in it for the pictures, in my experience, and these are awfully cute pictures.

I received a copy of this book through Goodreads First Reads.

[Jocelin]

Super sweet, super cute. The illustrations are simply precious. Did I say super cute? Fun, engaging and great for the little ones.

[Mrs. Cubby Culbertson]

Great for Grayson!

[Deb]

Super cute art, building up a nice landscape for all the "friends".