3321 M&W Author Profile: Frog and Toad Are Friends

This week’s author profile is on the book Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel. This is such a great book for children ages 4-8 and is about the two wonderful friends who are great role models for children. The duo goes on all sorts of adventures together through out the five stories and they experience many embarrassing things. Things like being seen in your bathing suit (we all were embarrassed when this would happen to us), looking for lost buttons, waiting for mail, and waking up after hibernation. Children will be able to relate to these stories with friendships of their own and experiences that they have been through with their friends. A really cool website that I found, http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/frog/frogtg.html, has all sorts of activities and lessons that go along with the book. There are activities such as making an origami frog, activities about friends, and children will make their own description of what a frog looks like. It’s a good resource for teachers to use and tweak to make their own!