Frog in the Kitchen Sink is written by Jim Post and illustrated by Daniel Vasconcelios.
Picture book
K - 3rd Grade
2 out of 5
Frog in the Kitchen Sink tells about all the places you should not put a frog and what will happen if you do put the frog in these places.
I did not like this book because I felt like it was too repetitive. Every page was a rhyme but it was hard to pick up on the rhythm in which you were supposed to read it in. I felt like the ending had nothing to do with the rest of the story; it ends with a little girl kissing the frog and turning into a frog. I also did not understand the point of the book; there is no plot, no climax, or resolution. The book has very funny illustrations that kids may like. The illustrations are cartoons. The book has 2 huge eyeballs that move around and every picture incorporates these eyes into them. I think that these eyeballs are cute but may be distracting to young readers.
I do not think this book would have any good use in the classroom. There is nothing to be learned from this book so it should only be read for fun. I read this book to my nephew and he was not very interested in it at all. I even tried to be show extreme, over the top, expression to get him to enjoy it, but it did not work. If I were to design an activity to go along with this book, the only thing I could think to do is have students write their own page using the rhyme on all the pages and to draw a picture of where they should never put a frog.
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