Title: A Boy, a Dog, and a Frog
Illustrator: Merver Mayer
Publisher: Puffin
Year: -1967
Format: Hardcover
Genre: - Picture Book
Illustrator: Merver Mayer
Publisher: Puffin
Year: -1967
Format: Hardcover
Genre: - Picture Book
Reading Level: -
Interest Level: Preschool
Topics: -Friends, Imagination
Summary: This book is one of the first stories without words. The pictures encourage children to tell the story as they see it by creating their own dialogue and narration. The concept of the book is about a little boy and his dog go to a pond. They spot a frog and they are so excited they fall in the pond. So they sneak up on the frog in the water but he leaps away. The boy sees him on a branch and tells the dog to go on one side of the branch and the little boy will go on the other. As they sneak up on the frog they boy jumps and catches something with his net! He is so excited that he caught the frog, but when he looks in the net it's his dog! The frog escapes. The boy and the dog leave because they are all wet. But when they boy and the dog leave the frog gets very sad. So the frog follows them home. They boy and dog are very surprised to see the frog at home and they all decide to take a bath together to get all clean!
Interest Level: Preschool
Topics: -Friends, Imagination
Summary: This book is one of the first stories without words. The pictures encourage children to tell the story as they see it by creating their own dialogue and narration. The concept of the book is about a little boy and his dog go to a pond. They spot a frog and they are so excited they fall in the pond. So they sneak up on the frog in the water but he leaps away. The boy sees him on a branch and tells the dog to go on one side of the branch and the little boy will go on the other. As they sneak up on the frog they boy jumps and catches something with his net! He is so excited that he caught the frog, but when he looks in the net it's his dog! The frog escapes. The boy and the dog leave because they are all wet. But when they boy and the dog leave the frog gets very sad. So the frog follows them home. They boy and dog are very surprised to see the frog at home and they all decide to take a bath together to get all clean!
Extension Activities:
Have the children draw a picture of what they could do with the dog and frog after the bath. Then we can shore and put all the pictures into a classroom book.
Have the children draw a picture of what they could do with the dog and frog after the bath. Then we can shore and put all the pictures into a classroom book.
