Can You Hop?

by Lisa Lawston

Book Overview

Frog is looking for a friend to hop with, but monkey would rather clap, the ducks like to waddle, and cat prefers to stretch. Frog has almost given up when along hops a playful bunny. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Board book
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531301311
• ISBN13: 9780531301319
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic
• Length: 10 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 6.6"
• Age Range: 1 to 4 years

Customer Reviews

Daughter's favorite

The bright simple pictures held my daughter's interest and she continually chooses it as a favorite to read. She did not like to sit still through stories (even short board books) but this kept her entertained. We did motions with each animal as we went through the book and I feel it really helped her learn to enjoy story time.

a delight

A frog who is looking for a friend with a common interest: hopping! Gotta love it. From rhinos to lobsters, the frog asks each successive potential buddy if they hop. Eventually, he finds the right friend to hop with. The artwork is great--very simple but bursting with intense colors. This is perfect a child 6 months old: the story is not too complex and the repetitive phrasing works well for the little ones. A favorite.

The best first book for baby!

My twins have been stimulated by the images in this book since they were 2 months old and now, at 8 months, the book still holds their attention. The simple, bright images can be detected by a very young baby's eyes--at a younger age than any of the other books I have. In the first few days after they first learned to laugh, this book could be counted on to illicit several good laughs from each boy. I would recommend it for anyone with a new baby--you'll get more than your money's worth.

holds a baby's attention

This is a wonderfully colorful and creative book, yet it is simple enough to hold a young baby's attention. Our 5-month old loves this book and I'm sure it is because of the simplicity of the words and the bold uncomplicated illustrations. Other baby books are simply too complicated for her to actually see and comprehend at this point in her young life, but she focuses on this book and really enjoys it. We read it repeatedly to her over the course of a day and she never seems to tire of it. Furthermore, this book easily lends itself to additional creative use: the simple color scheme is useful to teach babies colors, the animals are drawn so that it is easy to count their eyes or ears, etc., and the sounds that each animal makes are easily replicated and amplified by the adult reading the book. I believe that this will be a beloved book in our growing baby library and I hope that this book will help start our daughter on a life-long love of reading.

One of the most wonderful baby books out on the market today

This book is wonderful to read to your child. It is full of fun colorful illustrations that catch the baby's eye's. The words are simple for the child to understand and it is not too long as to loose a young child's attention. It is read at least 10 times a day in out house. We also act out the motions of the aminals with great excitment and fun.