Frog, Where Are You?

A Boy, a Dog and a Frog #2

by Mercer Mayer

Frog is missing and the boy doesn't see him anywhere. Can the boy and his dog find their new friend?

Genres: Picture Books, Childrens, Fiction, Animals, Juvenile, Pets, Dogs

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1969

About the author

Mercer Mayer is an American children's author and illustrator. He has published over 300 books, using a wide range of illustrative styles. Mayer is best known for his Little Critter and Little Monster series of books.

Reviews

[André]

The famous frog-story, known to and used by linguists all over the world. I wonder if the author is actually aware of that. As a wordless picture story it is frequently used by linguists to elicit (almost) natural narration in dozens of languages to get a first simple story to work on when analyzing a language. I myself have used this a couple of times for languages like Burmese, Maru, Jinghpaw, and Shan, and thus have "read" it several times myself.

[Cobarde]

Buen ramo

[Emma Sunderman]

The ending is startling, not sure I can support it. The rest was quite an adventure. Wordless. Had to make up like 20 sentences per page. Laborious.

[Avery Voss]

Summary: This book is about a boy who goes looking for his frog because he's not in the jar anymore. He ends up finding his frog and realizes his frog has a family.
Reaction: I thought this book was really cute and sweet. I liked the illustrations as well and how you can kind of make up what is going to happen and where the frog is going to be.
Use it in the classroom: I can use this book to have kids make up a story on their own as well as have them guess what is going to happen. I could even have them make up another ending for the story as well.

[Nojood Alsudairi]

His series of wordless picture books are among the best. Such books add to the vividness of children's imagination.

[Alyssa]

Frog, Where Are You? is a wordless book that tells the story of boy whose frog is missing and goes out to try and find him with his dog. Though there are no words in the book, the illustrations are strong enough for the child to be able to narrate a story. The child would be instructed to give a narrative retell of the story and the clinician can record a language and speech sample to gain insight. By retelling the story, the clinician can gain insight into the child’s use of past tense, prepositions, pronouns, etc. The child will have to pay attention to the pictures as well as use their memory to remember the sequences of the following pages to develop an appropriate narrative. Frog, Where Are You? can also work on social skills and pragmatics because losing a friend, like the boy loses his frog, will elicit specific emotions. Articulation could also be worked on from this story by setting up the narrative to elicit a target sound.

[Lorraine]

Frog, Where Are You? by Mercer Mayer is a wordless book that tells of a rescue. The boy in the story along with his dog go out in search of the missing frog. The illustrations in the book are strong and make it easy to identify the theme of the book. Having no words add to the vividness of a child’s imagination. As a teacher, sequencing could be reinforced with this book by using pictures or words (that the students have come up with) to retell the story.

[Madeline Masluk]

I thought this book is a good book for children to who are ELL students or for students to explain there own concept of the story. I liked the illustrations of the book and how it is a short read. I would recommend giving this book to a ELL child or a child who is deaf, so they do not have to worry about the text.

[Kevin King]

This mostly wordless book follows a boy and his dog as they search for their missing pet frog. They embark on a chaotic journey through the woods, uncovering clues and encountering surprises. The story uses expressive illustrations to show determination, curiosity, and friendship.

[Sarah]

Delightfully wordless.

[Melissa]

I wish I had illustrative abilities such as these.

[Becca Tillotson]

The boys are enjoying looking at these.

[Sue]

Title: Frog Where Are You?
Author: Mercer Mayer
Genre: Children’s

Challenges: To Be Continued…Challenge, PB & J Challenge, 101 Books in 1001 Days Challenge, What an Animal II, Read and Review Challenge 2010, Young Readers Reading Challenge 2010, 2010 Support Your Local Library Reading Challenge, 100 + Reading Challenge, Pages Read 2010, A to Z challenge, What An Animal III Challenge

Rating: 4/5
No. of Pages: 32
Published: 1969


Back Cover: Frog is missing and the boy doesn’t see him anywhere. Can the boy and his dog find their new friend?

Mine: This is a great new series (to me) and of course it has frogs in it, so how can I not read it?

Once again the illustrations can’t help but tell the wonderful story of how frog disappears and boy and dog are frantically looking for him. They search everywhere – they run into trouble all along the way also. The gopher bites boys nose, the dog gets chased by the hornets from the next he knocks down. The owl in the tree scares boy and the buck with big antlers throws boy and dog over the ledge. This is where they discover frog and his family.

[D.peabody]

This is a lovely find. I love that the child is given the opportunity to tell their own version of the story and that there are great opportunities for language and imagination to be extended. The illustrations are beautiful and there are lovely moments of humour.

[Suzie Bookgirl]

This is a lovely find. I love that the child is given the opportunity to tell their own version of the story and that there are great opportunities for language and imagination to be extended. The illustrations are beautiful and there are lovely moments of humour.

[Hannah]

I love that this book doesn't have any written text. It can be made up by the reader or the listener, in their mind or aloud. The illustrations are classical and simple.

[Chase]

delightful

[Jenny]

Another cute one.

[Melanie]

Concept: Wordless. Could also be nature-pets?

[Pinky]

Frog goes missing and starts a family.

[Guen]

Mentioned in: Treasury of Read-Alouds - Wordless Books

The reason this one lost a star was for the baby frogs. Baby frogs?

[Rebecca]

Part of a series, all wordless.

[Awjtf]

Love it!

[Kristen Curran]

Frog, Where Are You? is a wordless picture book that I used in a clinical setting with a 5-year-old who had expressive language deficits. I used this book for a narrative retell in order to gain information about the child's ability to sequence a story and determine the main idea, as well as his use of verbs (present progressive, past tense, etc.) in conjunction with his ideas. Narrative retell books can also be used to enhance pragmatic skills, including thinking about the facial expressions and emotions of others. My client had Social Pragmatic Disorder, so I would often prompt the child to think about the main character's feelings throughout his retell.

[Melrose Brown]

A boy and his dog go on an adventure to search for his pet frog that escaped while he was sleeping. He searches high and low. Then he finds the frog with its family. Realizing that it'll be loved with the boy and his family, the frog decides to head back with the boy and his dog. The lessons from this book never giving up and having faith. It's a great read for grade school students with an adventurous imagination.