Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs

By Douglas Florian

From transparent glass frogs and ravenous rattlesnakes to sticky geckos and stressed-out skinks, this slithery spectacle showcases once again Douglas Florian's incomparable skill for making poetry informative, fun--and irresistible!

• Language: English
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Release date: Apr 1, 2005
• ISBN: 9780547770352

Douglas Florian

DOUGLAS FLORIAN is the creator of many acclaimed poetry picture books, including lizards, frogs, and polliwogs, a Child Magazine Best Book of the Year; mammalabilia, an ABA's Pick of the Lists; and insectlopedia, a New York Times bestseller, ALA Notable Children's Book, and Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. He lives with his family in New York City.

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Reviews for Lizards, Frogs, and Polliwogs

[nbmars · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

What’s so great about Douglas Florian is that he excels at both writing and illustrations, and that he makes poetry so much fun. Here he takes a topic bound to appeal to many kids, which concerns those living things that go slithering, hopping, and moseying along in the grass or the sand, and that so fascinate people, especially little ones.His poetry is quite entertaining. Here is what he says about the cobra, for example:"It’s wise to stay clearOf the dangerous cobra.All months of the year,Including Octobra.”As someone who used to follow Gila Monsters around whenever I was lucky enough to see one in Tucson, I appreciated this one because it’s so true:"They call me monster just becauseI have short legs and clumsy claws,And poison in my jaws,And lookLike someone’s composition book.”Kids will even learn some things about amphibians and reptiles painlessly and fun:"We polliwoggle.We polliwiggle.We shake in lakes,Make wakes,And wriggle.We quiver,We shiver,We jiggle,We jog.We’re hearingTo turn ourselves Into a frog.”The illustrations, whimsical and clever, are done in watercolor on primed brown paper bags with collage. My favorite is the one of the box turtle.Evaluation: I don't think anyone can go wrong by choosing a poetry book written and illustrated by Douglas Florian.

[dtolton93 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Loved this book! It would be so much fun to read to a group of kids. It's fun and entertaining learning about different characteristics of different animals, even a few animals I had never heard of before. Some of the text is untraditional and it definitely gave the book character.

[dennislankau · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is a collection of funny poems, each having to do with different reptiles, such as the tortoise, gecko, crocodile, iguna and cobra. This is another book that could be utilized for k-3 students.* To be used in k-3 classroom, read aloud, vocabulary.