Book Reflection #13: “Tree Frog Hears a Sound”
Title: Tree Frog Hears a Sound
Author: Johnson, Rebecca
Illustrator: Photographer- Parish, Steve
publication Date: 2006
ISBN #: 0836859766
Grades: Kindergarten-Third Grade
Summary: This is a wonderful book about how tree frogs find their mates. It starts out with a small red-eyed tree frog. She hears a sound and goes on a trip to find it. She started out sitting on a leaf when she heard the sound, she sat very quiet and listened in the hope that she would hear it and be able to follow it. It showed cute pictures of how she jumps and wraps herself around tree limbs to get from place to place. She heard another sound, it wasn’t the first sound. She discovers that the sound of coming from a white-lipped tree frog. She was disappointed. She heard the sound again and went back after it she leaped from leaf to leaf and she almost fell. She then head a Roth’s tree frog laughing at her. At one point she jumped from a limb and landed on the back of a big green tree frog. She heard the sound once again and she then found her lovely tree frog mate. She now hears her tree frog every day.
Why I Liked this Book: I loved this book. Not only did it talk about how tree frogs find their mates by following the sweet sound, but how she travels from leaf to leaf, and limb to limb to find what she looking for. I loved the pictures they were very close up and very colorful. I love learning about have the little tree frog travels around the rain forests.
Classroom Ideas: This book could be used to explain how animal find other animal by just following their sound. I would have my students gather around in a circle and have some of the student’s blind-folded so that the only way they could find the other student it to listen closely to the sounds. It could also be used as a way for the children to tell their own animal adventure.
