Genre
Picture books for children
Stories in rhyme
Tone
Silly
Writing Style
Attention-grabbing
Illustration
Cartoony
Subject
Familial love
Frogs
Independence (Personal quality)
Mother and child
Reassurance

paperback not hard copy

Very cute story. Being a mom, it made me think of my son. It's about a little frog and the mother. The mother is saying to leap all over these different places, but then to always leap back home to her. It is a predictable text that I think kids would really enjoy. I would love to make this one of my night time books for my little son. ( )

A mama frog sings a leap frog song to her little frog son, encouraging him to leap all over the place, over the creek and the hilltop and even the sun and stars, but then reminding him to return home to her.

The illustrations show a little green frog leaping over things, while mama sits home, quietly awaiting the return of her son. Wish mama would leap herself now and then, but a lovely and comforting book for a child.

“Leap frog over the owl’s nest.
Leap frog over the trees.
Leap frogover the rocky hilltop,
then leap back home to me!” ( )