when Picked To Be A Frog In The Class Play, Flora Does Not Like Her Role Until She Spies Real Frogs Jumping And Sparkling In The Pond.
children's Literature flora And Her Classmates Are Presenting A Play About Creatures That Live In The Woods. When Her Teacher Asks Her To Be A Frog, Flora Is Disappointed. She Would Much Rather Be A Fairy Or Flower. Even When Her Mother Offers To Make A Great Frog Suit, Flora Cannot Hide Her Disappointment. Flora Has A Miserable Day At School Because She Has Hidden The Frog Costume In A Tree On Her Way To School. After School, Flora Sees Real Frogs Hopping And Playing In A Puddle And Realizes That Being A Frog Won't Be So Bad, After All—especially If Her Suit Has Spangles On It. Leplar's Realistic Watercolor Illustrations Allow The Reader To See And Almost Feel Flora's Disappointments And Triumphs. Because Flora's Reactions Are Typical, Her Story Is A Humorous Way To Help Most Young Children Overcome Their Own Disappointments. This Book Would Be A Great Addition To Any Public Or School Library Children's Collection. 2000, Peachtree, $16.95. Ages 4 To 7. Reviewer: J. B. Petty

Isherwood, Shirley; Leplar, Anna, illustrator

Peachtree Publishing Company Inc.

Atlanta: Peachtree

Peachtree Junior

Freestone

United States, United States of America

1st, First Edition, PS, 2000

1st ed, Atlanta, c2000

Paper of this book made it reflective when scanned.

[curator]lenscriv@archive.org[/curator][date]20181106194349[/date]

Flora is asked to be a frog in the class play, but she is dismayed. Frogs are green and fat, and she is afraid that everyone will laugh at her.
When Flora's mother and Aunt Jo make a frog costume for her, Flora promptly throws it up into a tree. To make matters worse, she later lies to her mother that all her friends at school liked the costume.
But Flora makes a remarkable discovery after angrily throwing her ball over the backyard fence, where it lands next to a pond with three frogs jumping and sparkling with water drops. Slowly she realizes that being a frog in the play may not be so bad after all.
Author Shirley Isherwood shows young readers that a little imagination can make anythingeven a fat, green frogspecial and fun. Illustrator Anna C. Leplar's joyous watercolors bring the appealing characters to life in this hilarious, relatable tale about honesty and big feelings.

1 volume (unpaged) : 30 cm
When picked to be a frog in the class play, Flora does not like her role until she spies real frogs jumping and sparkling in the pond

2023-06-28