The Wide Mouthed Frog – by Keith Faulkner

This book is a huge favourite of my son (age 4).  We first enjoyed it at our local library program. All the kids loved it.

It is a pop out book about a wide-mouthed frog who goes around telling other animals that he is a wide-mouth frog and he eat flies. Then he asks what do they eat?

Each page has a wonderful pop-out creature. In the end the wide-mouth frog meets a crocodile who admits to eating wide-mouth frogs. All of a sudden the wide-mouth frogs squeezes his lips together pretending to be anything but a wide-mouth frog and hops away.

Very cute story. Would recommend this book as a gift for a child 3-5 years old (someone who will be able to enjoy the pop-outs, but not destroy them).

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Spring Has Sprung – Kiki Thorpe

Spring Has SprungThis is a Bear In The Big Blue House book. My son has never seen the show and loves the book.  It is a book I don’t mind reading over and over again.

Bear and his friends notice that things are changing now that it is getting warmer. Pip and Pop think that someone has stolen the ice from the pond. Ojo is excited to see a flower peeking through the melting snow and wonders where it came from. There are baby bird and animals being born, seeds that need to be planted, and some dancing because of all the excitement of spring.

Lots of fun and simple explanations of what happens and why during spring.

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