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Frog Goes to Dinner
After stowing away in his owner's pocket, a little boy's frog wreaks havoc in a fancy restaurant
32 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1974
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Mercer Mayer
774 books791 followersMercer 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.
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July 28, 2016
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4.0 out of 5 stars A Good Book for Pre-readers..., May 27, 2005
As a mom of two emerging readers (one 3, one 5) I have done alot of research into how children learn to read and this summer I am in hot pursuit of books that will help them practice.
One of the key skills that appears over and over in the literature is the ability to get 'clues' as to what is going on in the story from the pictures that accompany the text. This is one of the reasons I like this book. Without words, it allows my youngsters to practice their pre-reading skills of analyzing and interpreting what pictures mean.
The other reason, of course, is that this book is simply delightful. The drawings are detailed and funny and they keep my children coming back for more. A cute addition for a family's bookshelves.
[Don't forget to check out Tomie dePaola's wordless books as well.]
Good Reading reference books: "Reading Magic" by Mem Fox; " Raising Lifelong Learners" by Lucy McCormick; and the comprehensive if more cumbersome, "Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning about Print" by Marilyn Jager Adams.
July 22, 2017
I hope they are not serving frog legs! Great book for anyone who ever had a pet frog.
June 5, 2012
Mayer's masterwork. Accept no substitutes. Revel in the expressive linework. Ahhhhh.
My sisters and I read this a hundred thousand times, and we never stopped howling with laughter, especially at the old lady with the salad. Frog, you naughty amphibian!
It's true: I'm the person who ignores the paintings at art museums in favour of squinting at the etchings and pen-and-ink drawings stowed in dimly lit corridors. And it's all the fault of my childhood reading material.
My sisters and I read this a hundred thousand times, and we never stopped howling with laughter, especially at the old lady with the salad. Frog, you naughty amphibian!
It's true: I'm the person who ignores the paintings at art museums in favour of squinting at the etchings and pen-and-ink drawings stowed in dimly lit corridors. And it's all the fault of my childhood reading material.
September 5, 2016
A very expressive wordless picture book. The humor is age appropriate; I especially like how the boy and frog laugh about the whole evening when they are supposed to be in trouble. A fun introduction to the world of story telling
April 11, 2019
This is a wordless picture book about a boy whose frog sneaks into his jacket pocket and therefore goes to the fancy dinner that the family is headed to. The reader is then taken through a series of images showing all the problems that the frog causes. This leads to the family headed back home and the boy being sent to his room, but once there he and the frog continue to play and laugh about what just happened.
This is a great book to use with my students as they can use the pictures to tell the story. I think they would enjoy it and it would make them laugh! These types of books are excellent to use with kindergarten students since many cannot read traditional picture books yet. With this story, we can also do our own writing and illustrating a story similar to this one. Postmodern books seem to get the reader to really focus on their creativity.
This is a great book to use with my students as they can use the pictures to tell the story. I think they would enjoy it and it would make them laugh! These types of books are excellent to use with kindergarten students since many cannot read traditional picture books yet. With this story, we can also do our own writing and illustrating a story similar to this one. Postmodern books seem to get the reader to really focus on their creativity.
September 18, 2013
Frog goes to dinner by Mercer Mayer, is a wonderful wordless picture book, for young readers from second to fifth grade. Although it may not have words, the style of the illustration appeals to the older elementary students, as well as their ability to perceive emotions in a story through expressions. Published in 1974, this book still resonates and is appealing to children.
The main character in this book is a frog, who decides to sneak into the coat of his owner, a young boy, to accompany him to dinner. However, once he is there, he wrecks all kinds of havoc and causes the family to leave the fancy restaurant. Therefore, this graphic novel is a comedy due to all the mishaps the frog causes. As the cover clearly depicts the conflict in this novel, the frog attending dinner uninvited, the frog’s face in awe, the boy is in amazement, and the mom seems to be waiting for something to happen, while the bad person is the server, who ends up kicking the family out.
All of this illustrated through pen and ink cartoon/graphic novel style. The characters are very expressionistic depicted with mouths wide open for astonishment, furrowed brows for confusion or anger, and eyes that depict anger by been drawn half way or amazement by wide open. Furthermore, Mayer uses lines in character’s faces to depict powerful emotions like anger or embarrassment, by drawing vertical lines casting a shadow. Similarly, to demonstrate the tranquility of pre-dinner, the night sky is drawn with horizontal lines, clear of any drama. All was serene and none expected what was to come, not even the boy.
Overall, I liked Frog goes to dinner, and found it to be a very interesting wordless novel. This would encourage students to think from different perspectives, like the mom’s, frogs, and boys, and could easily tell it from either perspectives for class activities. Due to the wonderful illustrations and interesting storyline, I would give this book five stars.
The main character in this book is a frog, who decides to sneak into the coat of his owner, a young boy, to accompany him to dinner. However, once he is there, he wrecks all kinds of havoc and causes the family to leave the fancy restaurant. Therefore, this graphic novel is a comedy due to all the mishaps the frog causes. As the cover clearly depicts the conflict in this novel, the frog attending dinner uninvited, the frog’s face in awe, the boy is in amazement, and the mom seems to be waiting for something to happen, while the bad person is the server, who ends up kicking the family out.
All of this illustrated through pen and ink cartoon/graphic novel style. The characters are very expressionistic depicted with mouths wide open for astonishment, furrowed brows for confusion or anger, and eyes that depict anger by been drawn half way or amazement by wide open. Furthermore, Mayer uses lines in character’s faces to depict powerful emotions like anger or embarrassment, by drawing vertical lines casting a shadow. Similarly, to demonstrate the tranquility of pre-dinner, the night sky is drawn with horizontal lines, clear of any drama. All was serene and none expected what was to come, not even the boy.
Overall, I liked Frog goes to dinner, and found it to be a very interesting wordless novel. This would encourage students to think from different perspectives, like the mom’s, frogs, and boys, and could easily tell it from either perspectives for class activities. Due to the wonderful illustrations and interesting storyline, I would give this book five stars.
October 15, 2012
Citation: Frog Goes to Dinner, by Mercer Mayer. (Puffin Books, 1974). 32p. Wordless.
Genre: Picture Book - Wordless
Summary: Frog Goes to Dinner is a book about a frog who sneaks into a little boy’s pocket and goes to dinner with his family at a fancy restaurant and creates chaos.
A. A great asset to this book are the illustrations. They aid in making the story easy to follow.
B. Overall, the story is funny and the illustrations are great at providing expressions of the main characters. The book is very small. I think it would be a lot better if it was bigger so you could see the illustrations better. The illustrations themselves seem to be crammed onto the page. I believe the book would be easier to follow if the illustrations were larger and the book itself was larger.
C. For example, on page 4 the frog slips into the little boy’s coat pocket. I had to go back twice to figure out how the frog got into the restaurant with the little boy and his family. As stated above, if this book was bigger I do not think I would have had a problem figuring out how the frog snuck into the restaurant.
Curriculum Connection: This would be a great book to have for students to read independently. The story line is easy enough to follow that students could then do a short activity with the book when finished reading.
September 16, 2013
Category (Picture book soak)
Found on pg. 74 in the textbook
Description
1. A little boy is the son of a wealthy family. But this boy is far from abnormal. As an animal lover, the boy has a dog and somehow has acquired a frog that he puts in his coat pocket. Taking it with him to the restaurant is hardly fancy as the story takes a comical twist.
Possible use in the classroom
2. A book such as this one is highly useful in igniting the prior knowledge of students who can use their background understand to write a narrative about something silly that happened to them at the dinner table.
Visual elements
3. Although this book is colored in black and white, the illustrations hardly suffer from the lack of color; the detail in every page is amazing and very fun to look at. When reading this book, one gets the feeling they are reading the comic page in the newspaper.
Personal reaction
4. As a child, Mercer Mayer use to make children's movies. So, when I came across this title in the library, I was intrigued to say the least. Upon opening the book, I found myself taken back years when I was watching the Mercer Mayer movies. This is a great book!
Found on pg. 74 in the textbook
Description
1. A little boy is the son of a wealthy family. But this boy is far from abnormal. As an animal lover, the boy has a dog and somehow has acquired a frog that he puts in his coat pocket. Taking it with him to the restaurant is hardly fancy as the story takes a comical twist.
Possible use in the classroom
2. A book such as this one is highly useful in igniting the prior knowledge of students who can use their background understand to write a narrative about something silly that happened to them at the dinner table.
Visual elements
3. Although this book is colored in black and white, the illustrations hardly suffer from the lack of color; the detail in every page is amazing and very fun to look at. When reading this book, one gets the feeling they are reading the comic page in the newspaper.
Personal reaction
4. As a child, Mercer Mayer use to make children's movies. So, when I came across this title in the library, I was intrigued to say the least. Upon opening the book, I found myself taken back years when I was watching the Mercer Mayer movies. This is a great book!
December 17, 2009
Frog Goes to Dinner is the follow up to Frog on His Own. Like all the Boy, Dog and Frog books, it's a picture book. This time the Boy and his parents go to a hotel for a fancy dinner.
The Boy though decides it would be a good idea to bring along Frog in his pocket. Frog once again sees his chance to make his escape. Frog gets into a number of misadventures that upset the restaurant and ultimately get the Boy and his family kicked out of the restaurant.
Interestingly though the parents let the Boy keep the Frog. They are angry and they scold the Boy but the Frog stays. Was the meal really that boring? Or do they know the Boy will get another Frog? How does their inaction reflect on their parenting skills or on the family dynamic as a whole?
The Boy, Dog and Frog picture book series:
* A Boy, a Dog and a Frog (1967)
* Frog, Where Are You? (1969)
* A Boy, a Dog, a Frog, and a Friend (1971)
* Frog on His Own (1973)
* Frog Goes to Dinner (1974)
* One Frog Too Many (1975)
The Boy though decides it would be a good idea to bring along Frog in his pocket. Frog once again sees his chance to make his escape. Frog gets into a number of misadventures that upset the restaurant and ultimately get the Boy and his family kicked out of the restaurant.
Interestingly though the parents let the Boy keep the Frog. They are angry and they scold the Boy but the Frog stays. Was the meal really that boring? Or do they know the Boy will get another Frog? How does their inaction reflect on their parenting skills or on the family dynamic as a whole?
The Boy, Dog and Frog picture book series:
* A Boy, a Dog and a Frog (1967)
* Frog, Where Are You? (1969)
* A Boy, a Dog, a Frog, and a Friend (1971)
* Frog on His Own (1973)
* Frog Goes to Dinner (1974)
* One Frog Too Many (1975)
September 18, 2012
Frog Goes To Dinner by Mercer Mayer
1-Genre: Wordless Picture Book
2-This a story of a young boy and his adventurous frog. The family has plans for a nice night out and while getting ready the adventurous frog sneaks a ride in the boy’s jacket pocket.
3-(a) The illustrations in this short book are exquisite.
(b) The illustrator has great ability in showing detail by simply varying line direction and thickness. The illustrations throughout the book show great detail, depth, and distance.
(c) On page 4 and 5 of the book, it shows a great example of the detail provided by the illustrator of this book. The reader can clearly see the line variations that the illustrator uses to show texture in the suit jackets, the crossing of the lines to show shadowing, and simple thin spread out lines to show the flowing of the mother’s hair.
4-This book would be great to use in a classroom lesson getting the students to enhance their oral skills. Students can use this wordless book and express verbally to partners what they feel is happening throughout the pages of the book.
1-Genre: Wordless Picture Book
2-This a story of a young boy and his adventurous frog. The family has plans for a nice night out and while getting ready the adventurous frog sneaks a ride in the boy’s jacket pocket.
3-(a) The illustrations in this short book are exquisite.
(b) The illustrator has great ability in showing detail by simply varying line direction and thickness. The illustrations throughout the book show great detail, depth, and distance.
(c) On page 4 and 5 of the book, it shows a great example of the detail provided by the illustrator of this book. The reader can clearly see the line variations that the illustrator uses to show texture in the suit jackets, the crossing of the lines to show shadowing, and simple thin spread out lines to show the flowing of the mother’s hair.
4-This book would be great to use in a classroom lesson getting the students to enhance their oral skills. Students can use this wordless book and express verbally to partners what they feel is happening throughout the pages of the book.
February 3, 2015
I thought this book was so funny! It was a cute story that I think most if not all children will enjoy. Sometimes we want to read a book that is plain fun to read. This book would be excellent for a group circle time in a preschool or kindergarten class. A teacher could even have the children or maybe another teacher act out what is happening with puppets, other people etc. I would read this book to children who are just starting to become emerging readers. They are learning what books are and are beginning to enjoy reading so I think that a wordless picture book is a great introduction to reading. The children are able to tell the story through pictures with these kind of books. This causes them to use and exercise their cognitive development and also helps them to be creative. When I imagine reading this book to young kindergartners or preschoolers I can see some of the children guessing what is going to happen on the next page which is fun and beneficial. Such a hilarious book that children would enjoy and enhance their thinking and reading skills.
July 9, 2010
Title: Frog Goes To Dinner
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: 1974
Back Cover: Frog goes to dinner…..
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 disrupts a fancy dinner with boy’s family. He jumps in the saxophone, then smashes the drum, jumps in the salad that scares the women, then jumps in a drink and finally is thrown and boy’s family is asked to leave the fancy restaurant.
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: 1974
Back Cover: Frog goes to dinner…..
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 disrupts a fancy dinner with boy’s family. He jumps in the saxophone, then smashes the drum, jumps in the salad that scares the women, then jumps in a drink and finally is thrown and boy’s family is asked to leave the fancy restaurant.
May 29, 2021
The boy and his family go out to dinner. The frog hides in the boy's pocket, then gets out in the restaurant and shenanigans ensue.
I've been working with my kids, getting them to narrate wordless picturebooks to me. This series has been great for that. Unfortunately, they have no context for this. We haven't taken them to a restaurant with a waitstaff since they were two years old, and never to one this fancy. So this didn't work as well for us, but your mileage may vary.
I've been working with my kids, getting them to narrate wordless picturebooks to me. This series has been great for that. Unfortunately, they have no context for this. We haven't taken them to a restaurant with a waitstaff since they were two years old, and never to one this fancy. So this didn't work as well for us, but your mileage may vary.
July 20, 2015
Mayer, Mercer. Frog goes to dinner. New York:: Dial Press, 1974. This is the story of a little boy who brings his frog to a fancy dinner. Unfortunately, the frog gets loose and causes all sorts of havoc as he jumps through people's food while everyone tries to catch him. The boy's parents are displeased and send him to bed unhappily, yet the boy gets to his room and starts laughing with his frog. The author uses a small picture book format in which there are purely black and white illustrations. The illustrations are all you need to see the story, and the reader is left as to no doubt as to what was happening in the play. This book could be used in a classroom to help teach kids that there is a funny side to things. That even though bad things happen, you can enjoy it.
December 11, 2012
Genre: Wordless picture book
Summary: Trouble ensues when Frog stows away in the little boys jacket and sneaks to dinner. This is a charming funny and book and the only person who probably didn't think it was funny was the waiter.
Critique
A. Illustration
B. This book is wordless so it relies heavily on illustration and they were great. the story was funny and sweet even without dialogue.
C. The waiter's face is so expressive we can see his entire demeanor and personality in these drawings.
Curriculum connection: I would use this in literature and teach a lesson on visual comprehension and how to read pictures.
Summary: Trouble ensues when Frog stows away in the little boys jacket and sneaks to dinner. This is a charming funny and book and the only person who probably didn't think it was funny was the waiter.
Critique
A. Illustration
B. This book is wordless so it relies heavily on illustration and they were great. the story was funny and sweet even without dialogue.
C. The waiter's face is so expressive we can see his entire demeanor and personality in these drawings.
Curriculum connection: I would use this in literature and teach a lesson on visual comprehension and how to read pictures.
August 17, 2014
Mercer Mayer's boy/dog/frog wordless picture books are fantastic for emergent readers; no words to worry about, just beautiful illustrations to interpret. Great for developing a keen eye for detail, reading facial expressions, picking up on cause and effect, etc. This book has lots of fun faces from the parents; annoyance, embarrassment, anger...
My youngest, a well-practiced reader at age seven, still enjoys this series, as do I.
Just enough good ole fashioned, out-of-doors mischief to hold the attention of rough and tumble little boys (or tomboys).
*I don't own any of these, but if I did the kids and I would likely take great pleasure in coloring the b&w illustrations. :)
My youngest, a well-practiced reader at age seven, still enjoys this series, as do I.
Just enough good ole fashioned, out-of-doors mischief to hold the attention of rough and tumble little boys (or tomboys).
*I don't own any of these, but if I did the kids and I would likely take great pleasure in coloring the b&w illustrations. :)
February 5, 2015
This book is a prime example that not all books need words! Mercer Mayer knows how to tell a story visually, the audience didn't miss a beat in the story. In Frog Goes to Dinner a little boy has many pets but he decides to take his pet frog out to dinner with his family. The frog leaves his owner joining musicians and other tables' food. The frog gets the family kicked out of the restaurant which angers his family greatly. When the little boy gets home though he is just happy to be with his pets. The illustrations were very detailed and gave life to a book anyone could read. In my opinion this is a beautiful book!
October 13, 2014
This book is a really cute, fun book to read or look at! Even though the pictures are not in color, they are just black and white, the detail in the book is incredible. Because the book has no words, the detail drawn on the characters faces really helps the reader to understand how the character is feeling and thinking and as a reader you are able to connect and know what's happening in the book.
August 3, 2017
I was just taken back to the 1970s when I re-read this book. Actually there is no reading---but the expressions on Mayer's characters' faces in this picture book are as well fleshed out as any children's book text. Excellent!
April 6, 2009
The back of this book says that Mercer Mayer was one of the creators of wordless books. Since I'm a fan of wordless books, I liked learning that little fact.
This book is hilarious. All of my family appreciated it and laughed. The last page is the kicker!
This book is hilarious. All of my family appreciated it and laughed. The last page is the kicker!
July 18, 2010
Picture Book - Wordless
Grades Pre K-1
Themes: Friendship; discovery
Ways to use with children: analyze/interpret pictures; connect story with own life; predict what will happen next; write text to the pictures
Grades Pre K-1
Themes: Friendship; discovery
Ways to use with children: analyze/interpret pictures; connect story with own life; predict what will happen next; write text to the pictures
October 15, 2010
(Picture Book) Beautiful illustrations with great detail. Great facial expressions. This is a wordless picture book that shows a disaterous evening at a fancy restaurant with a young boy's tag-along-frog friend.
October 22, 2012
3* art - I wish it were in full colour
4* story
A little old for Squirt at this point (I admit, sometimes I pick out the books that *I* want to read). However! He will love this when he's old enough - it is full of mischief and laughs.
4* story
A little old for Squirt at this point (I admit, sometimes I pick out the books that *I* want to read). However! He will love this when he's old enough - it is full of mischief and laughs.
May 13, 2014
A cute book about a young boy with a pet frog. The frog sneaks into a restaurant with the boy and causes mischief. It is all in pictures, no words. I'd recommend it for ages 0-6. It is good for narrative skill.
September 13, 2016
Picture book title #5
Very cute picture book without words. It has a frog that goes on an adventure while the family goes out to dinner. This could help students who want to build confidence with books but struggle with text.
Very cute picture book without words. It has a frog that goes on an adventure while the family goes out to dinner. This could help students who want to build confidence with books but struggle with text.
July 29, 2019
Pain-in-the-neck frog.
This review originally published at http://www.drttmk.com/books/frog-goes....
That was an odd book. No words aside from environmental ones. I don't know if all the copies are rather small, or if it's just the publication run that I got from the library.
A boy goes to dinner with his family. He has a couple of pets. One of them is a frog. The frog stows away in his pocket. They go to "Fancy Restaurant." They sit down to order. The frog jumps around and gets into antics, like messing with the instruments of the band, and jumping into somebody's salad and freaking them out. It jumps into somebody else's glass of, presumably, alcohol, and kisses him on the face. Then the the waiter, or maitre d' or whatever, goes to throw the frog out a door labeled "Fire exit" and the boy sees that happening (his family is trying to get him to be quiet) and gets up and takes ownership of the frog. So the entire family gets kicked out of the restaurant. As they drive home, everyone else is angry at him. When they get home, his parents send him to his room. He goes in the room and then he and the frog laugh.
Okay. I don't even. There's no real point to this book. The frog gets the family in trouble and then suffers no consequences for this. The child is punished as if he had done something wrong, which he really didn't. It has a cute look. In the absence of words, you end up judging it more by art. I didn't care much for the story, but the art is pretty good. The characters are drawn with clear emotions that children should be able to interpret easily. I guess the story is simple enough that preliterate children can probably figure most of it out by themselves. I'm not sure they'd understand the location without reading "menu" or "fancy restaurant" or exactly what the waiter was doing without reading "fire exit".
I guess it's just supposed to be funny, but I didn't think it was. I found it rather annoying instead. I don't like trouble for the sake of trouble, or things like pranks.
Message: Don't take frogs to a fancy restaurant?
This review originally published at http://www.drttmk.com/books/frog-goes....
That was an odd book. No words aside from environmental ones. I don't know if all the copies are rather small, or if it's just the publication run that I got from the library.
A boy goes to dinner with his family. He has a couple of pets. One of them is a frog. The frog stows away in his pocket. They go to "Fancy Restaurant." They sit down to order. The frog jumps around and gets into antics, like messing with the instruments of the band, and jumping into somebody's salad and freaking them out. It jumps into somebody else's glass of, presumably, alcohol, and kisses him on the face. Then the the waiter, or maitre d' or whatever, goes to throw the frog out a door labeled "Fire exit" and the boy sees that happening (his family is trying to get him to be quiet) and gets up and takes ownership of the frog. So the entire family gets kicked out of the restaurant. As they drive home, everyone else is angry at him. When they get home, his parents send him to his room. He goes in the room and then he and the frog laugh.
Okay. I don't even. There's no real point to this book. The frog gets the family in trouble and then suffers no consequences for this. The child is punished as if he had done something wrong, which he really didn't. It has a cute look. In the absence of words, you end up judging it more by art. I didn't care much for the story, but the art is pretty good. The characters are drawn with clear emotions that children should be able to interpret easily. I guess the story is simple enough that preliterate children can probably figure most of it out by themselves. I'm not sure they'd understand the location without reading "menu" or "fancy restaurant" or exactly what the waiter was doing without reading "fire exit".
I guess it's just supposed to be funny, but I didn't think it was. I found it rather annoying instead. I don't like trouble for the sake of trouble, or things like pranks.
Message: Don't take frogs to a fancy restaurant?
November 6, 2019
This is a wordless picture book about a kid who is going to a fancy dinner with his family. His dog, turtle and frog are sad because they can’t tag along. While the boy is getting ready, the frog decides that he is going to dinner with the boy. At dinner, the frog jumps out of the boy’s pocket and begins to cause chaos. First he jumps into a tuba, and starts to anger the band. Because of the frog, it breaks up the band and things become to get destroyed. The frog then proceeds to jump onto meals and destroy people’s evenings. The owner of the restaurant then starts to run after the frog but he continues to run away until he is caught. The owner is dragging the frog out until the boy spots his pet frog. The boy takes his frog home and his family is upset and disappointed, and the frog realizes what he has done. When they get home the frog and the boy get sent to the room and they think it’s hilarious. This would be a fun lesson to use and have students write their own story and words that go along with the pictures.
September 19, 2018
Frog Goes to Dinner
by Mercer Mayer
Frog Goes to Dinner is a wordless picture book that tells the story of a boy who takes his frog to dinner. In the story a young boy and his family get dressed up to go to a fancy dinner. Right before leaving the boy slips his pet frog into his pocket. During dinner the frog gets out and creates chaos in the restaurant. This book is great for children. Its a picture book that has pictures with a lot of detail. The book is in black and white, but I think this is good because it makes the children pay attention to the illustrations. I like this picture book because you can interpret it however you would like to. I have never experienced a book like this before but I really enjoyed it. I also think it is great for children because this allows them to read on there own, in the case that they do not know how to read.
by Mercer Mayer
Frog Goes to Dinner is a wordless picture book that tells the story of a boy who takes his frog to dinner. In the story a young boy and his family get dressed up to go to a fancy dinner. Right before leaving the boy slips his pet frog into his pocket. During dinner the frog gets out and creates chaos in the restaurant. This book is great for children. Its a picture book that has pictures with a lot of detail. The book is in black and white, but I think this is good because it makes the children pay attention to the illustrations. I like this picture book because you can interpret it however you would like to. I have never experienced a book like this before but I really enjoyed it. I also think it is great for children because this allows them to read on there own, in the case that they do not know how to read.
September 15, 2021
Frog Goes to Dinner, by Mercer Mayer
The book begins with the little boy getting ready to leave to go to dinner. We are shown that his pets are sad for him to leave however frog hops in his pocket. From there the frog hops around to each table causing chaos through out the restaurant. The frog hops in a lady's drink causing her to scream. We can interrupt the reactions by the faces of the people. The story ends with the little boy in trouble, but with the frog and his pets the rest of world does not matter. This book is full of good laughs to get the children excited to read more. It also allows for imagination to flow while trying to figure out if there where words what would be said. The book would be great for the ages 2-5, or anyone who needs a good laugh!
The book begins with the little boy getting ready to leave to go to dinner. We are shown that his pets are sad for him to leave however frog hops in his pocket. From there the frog hops around to each table causing chaos through out the restaurant. The frog hops in a lady's drink causing her to scream. We can interrupt the reactions by the faces of the people. The story ends with the little boy in trouble, but with the frog and his pets the rest of world does not matter. This book is full of good laughs to get the children excited to read more. It also allows for imagination to flow while trying to figure out if there where words what would be said. The book would be great for the ages 2-5, or anyone who needs a good laugh!
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September 3, 2023Originally published in 1974. Read on Internet Archive. Did not purchase the book.
***A WORDLESS BOOK***
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Originally published in 1974.
Wordless book! I've got a grandkid falling behind in reading. I found all of Mercer Mayer's books online at Internet Archive on 8/26/2023. I would have purchased some on Amazon or Thriftbooks.com, or anywhere else, but, I actually need books with WORDS. I can't really rate this kind of book.
Available online at Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/froggoest...
***A WORDLESS BOOK***
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NOT LISTED IN AR PROGRAM
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Originally published in 1974.
Wordless book! I've got a grandkid falling behind in reading. I found all of Mercer Mayer's books online at Internet Archive on 8/26/2023. I would have purchased some on Amazon or Thriftbooks.com, or anywhere else, but, I actually need books with WORDS. I can't really rate this kind of book.
Available online at Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/froggoest...
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