As a digital subscriber, you’ll receive unlimited access to Horn Book web exclusives and extensive archives, as well as access to our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database.
To access other site content, visit The Horn Book homepage.
To continue you need an active subscription to hbook.com.
Subscribe now to gain immediate access to everything hbook.com has to offer, as well as our highly searchable Guide/Reviews Database, which contains tens of thousands of short, critical reviews of books published in the United States for young people.
Thank you for registering. To have the latest stories delivered to your inbox, select as many free newsletters as you like below.
No thanks. Return to article
32 pp.
| Holt |
February, 2013 |
TradeISBN 978-0-8050-9254-7$17.99
(3)
K-3
Illustrated by
Gennady Spirin.
Profiles of eleven frogs and toads from worldwide locales touch on microhabitat, physical features, and nurturing behavior, while onomatopoeic text describes their songs. What could have been a sterile catalog is instead a graceful, accurate ode, matched and extended by Spirin's painstakingly detailed illustrations of amphibians in lush settings. Additional facts and a plea for clean frog environments conclude the volume. Websites. Bib.