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Simple text and photographs explain how a tadpole becomes a frog.

Simple text and photographs explain how a tadpole becomes a frog.

"With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins,...

"Tad is small. In fact, she is the smallest almost-a-frog in the whole, wide pond. That makes it hard for her to do big things like follow her tadsiblings who swim to other parts of the pond when they outgrow the nest. As her tadbrothers and tadsisters swim up, up, up, they leave poor Tad by her lonesome. That's until...Big Blub shows up! He's not only bigger than Tad, but Big Blub isn't exactly what a tadpole would consider friendly. Swimming at...

An introduction to the life cycle of a frog from the time it is a tiny egg laid in water until it is two years old.

Describes how frogs develop from eggs to tadpoles to froglets to adult frogs.

"Provides comprehensive information on the process of tadpoles changing into frogs"--Provided by publisher.

"Egg to tadpole to frog. An elegant, beautifully illustrated life cycle science book for new readers"--