From Tadpole to Frog

by Anita Ganeri

Part of a series which looks at the life cycles of familiar animals and plants. This title contains Question boxes which encourage children to make predictions about what is coming up in the text. It includes animal and plant maps, and life cycle diagrams which summarise the life cycles with artwork and key information.

Genres: Animals

32 pages, Library Binding

Published September 15, 2005

About the author

Anita Ganeri is a highly experienced author of children’s information books, specialising in religion, India/Asia, multiculturalism, geography, biography and natural history. She became a freelance writer after working at Walker Books (as foreign rights manager) and Usborne Publishing (as an editor). Since then, she has written over 300 titles, including the best-selling Horrible Geography series for Scholastic. The series won the Geographical Association Silver Award in 1999 and was cited as being ‘an innovation that all geographers will applaud’. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society where she conducts most of her research for the books.

Reviews

[Jessie Jang · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this book had a lot of information about tadpoles and frogs. It also shows real life pictures of tadpoles and frogs. I like how it showed how a tadpole becomes a frog. I like how it has questions.

Learning Experience
I would give each child a cut-out of a frog and to decorate it. I would also have some tad poles in the classroom and the children can see how a tadpoles change into frogs. Then the children can draw what they see.

[Inna Nako · Rating 5 out of 5]

Grade 2-3, Life cyles of living organisms

-great pictures accompany easy to understand vocablulary
-describes in detail how a tadpole becomes a frog
-at the end of the book, it summarizes the life cycle
-includes a glossary