Tale of a Tadpole

by Karen Wallace

Book Overview

This book follows the life of a newborn tadpole as it grows up into a frog, facing the dangers of the pond along the way. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1465435085
• ISBN13: 9781465435088
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.28 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

Eyecatching and manageable for beginning readers

I wanted this to be a book my child could read to me easily, as we are moving on from phonics readers and the like. The pictures are great, as is the case with most DK books. The only word beyond my five year old was 'tongue' which was one of the picture words (i.e. one of about eight words that are clearly defined by a picture within the book). There were no 'gh' words or other tricky ones to trip a beginning reader up.

Tadpoles rule!

"Tale of a Tadpole" combines excellent full-color photographs with a simple text by Karen Wallace in order to tell the story of a tadpole's life cycle. The result is a delightful book for beginning readers.Like the other books in this series, "Tale of a Tadpole" includes a "Picture Word List" at the end. This is basically a summary of vocabulary words with a photograph to illustrate each word: "gills," "eye," etc. The main text of the book begins with the newly laid eggs, and depicts the tadpole (and sometimes his siblings) hatching, evading predators, and undergoing the marvelous metamorphosis into a full-grown frog.The photography is superb. Both "action shots" and more relaxed scenes are skillfully captured. And our star tadpole/frog is a most appealing hero! Overall, I highly recommend this book both for its educational value and for its charm.

Excellent non-fiction for preschoolers

This book works well as a non-fiction read-aloud for preschoolers. Great photos keep their attention as the book briefly, but thoroughly, describes the environment & life of a frog from egg to mature frog. Wallace does a better job than some similar books at providing a bit of a story-line to go along with all of the facts.