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Synopsis
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. Shirley Isherwood shows young readers that a little imagination can make anything -- even a fat, green frog -- special and fun.
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Anna C. Leplar studied art Ruskin School of Fine Art in Oxford, England, and has illustrated a wide range of children books. She lives in Reykjavik, Iceland with her husband and two children.
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PreSchool-Grade 2-Flora is dejected when she is given the role of a frog in the class play. Frogs are green and ugly with fat green tummies and long green legs and she would much rather be a fairy with wings or an elf with bells on her shoes. Even though her mother and Aunt Jo make her a wonderful costume, she is still unhappy, and gets rid of the frog suit by throwing it up into the branches of a tree. There it torments her conscience by flapping and waving at her. After school, Flora tells her mother that everyone liked the costume. Feeling guilty about her lie, she goes outside to play and observes some frogs in a pond. Seeing how they sparkle in the water, she has an epiphany: spangles can be sewn onto her outfit. After she confesses all through a deluge of tears, Flora, her mother, and Aunt Jo retrieve the costume and add a few sequins, much to the girl's delight. Children will relate to Flora's feelings, due in particular to the large, full-page pen-and-watercolor illustrations that wonderfully depict her emotions. Although the book is a bit didactic and predictable, it should serve as a starting point for discussions about lying and feelings.
Piper L. Nyman, Fairfield/Suisun Community Library, Fairfield, CA
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- PublisherBloomsbury
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0747544794
- ISBN 13 9780747544791
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages32
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