Puss Reboots: Blog: March 2008: Frogs

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Bleach Volume 9 by Tite Kubo.
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Marakami.
The Boarder by Alexander Jablokov.
Brighty of the Grand Canyon by Marguerite Henry.
Count to Ten Piggy Wiggy by Christyan and Diane Fox.
Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked Man by Tim Allen.
Exit Strategy by K. D. Wentworth
Forgive Me by Amanda Eyre Ward.
The Four Ugly Cats in Apartment 3D by Marilyn Sachs.
Flush by Carl Hiaasen.
Frogs by Martin Schwabacher.
He Rents, She Rents by Richard Roeper and Laura Viera.
Hotel Cat by Esther Averill
Immortal by Traci L. Slatton.
The Ka of Gifford Hillary by Dennis Wheatley.
Last Chance Saloon by Marian Keyes.
Leadership Brand by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood.
Lorna Doone (Abridged) by R. D. Blackmore
Lost Pilgrim by Gene Wolf.
The Magnificent Mummy Maker by Elvira Woodruff.
Manhattan is Missing by E. W. Hildick.
The Middle Moffat by Eleanor Estes.
Mommy Hugs by Anne Gutman and Georg Hallensleben.
Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman.
Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
The Overseer by Albert E. Cowdrey.
Park by Pierre Pratt
Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle.
Q & A by Vikas Swarup
The Rocky Mountain Moving Picture Association by Loren D. Estleman
Rumple What? by Nancy Springer
Sea Turtles by Emilie U. Lepthien.
The Second Descent by Richard Paul Russo.
Stanley in Space by Jeff Brown and illustrated by Scott Nash.
Take a Stand, Rosa Parks! by Peter and Connie Roop.
Tall by Jez Alborough.
Trucks and Diggers by DK Publishing.
Women & Self-Esteem by Linda Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan

Miscellaneous:
Kirby Went to the Beach by Sean Sammis

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Frogs: 03/06/08

Sean and I love to chat to and from school. He has been learning about different kinds of animals and had some questions about frogs. While we were chatting the topic of poisonous frogs came up. I described how colorful poisonous frogs are and Sean wanted to learn more. Rather than look them up on the internet, we decided to put his new reading skills to use and we checked out a book from our local library.

The book we selected was was Frogs by Martin Schwabacher which is part of the Animals, Animals series. We picked it because of the fantastic blue poison dart frogs on the cover.

Frogs covers all the basics of frog biology from the life cycle of the frog, the typical environments frogs and toads live in, the difference between frogs and toads, frog anatomy and of course a brief list of some different species of frogs.

The most interesting thing we learned from the is that frogs close their eyes to swallow. Their eyes push into their heads to force the food down their throats!

Sean and I both wish the book had more pages devoted to the different species of frogs. The photography in the book is excellent and it would have been nice to see more than just a half dozen or so types of frog.