You don't see many of those around, do you?

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	• The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book Keith Faulkner, Jonathan Lambert Dial, 1996 - 16 pages average customer review:based on 44 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Best Pop-Up Book

I have been giving this book as a gift for many years and inevitably I hear that this pop-up book quickly becomes a young child's favorite, the one most requested to be read. Children love the pop-ups and their eyes grow wide when they see them for the first time, and the story is one they can enjoy and laugh at the punch line! Adults will recognize that the story was orginally a joke.

Great pop-up book!

This book was given to me over a decade ago by my family for completing a year of college. Well, I'm known as the "wide mouthed frog" of the family, so it was quite apropos.

I now have a 16-month-old daughter, and this is one of her favorite books. The pictures and pop-ups are really nicely done, and it's a simple and cute story. She loves to touch the protruding snouts on each of the creatures, and the whiskers on the little mouse. She squeals nearly every time I open it up and show her the first page with the frog's big old tongue flapping out of that wide mouth.

Recently, I bought it for an adult friend going through therapy for post-cancer oral surgery, partly to encourage her to open that mouth wide! It's a real lift-me-up, and a sweet book to give for many occasions.

I highly recommend it for anyone.

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A Favorite Pop-Up For Kids

If you can only afford to get one pop-up book for your 3-6 year old, get this one! I do storytime with pre-K children and this is defintely one of their favorites as they shout "READ IT AGAIN!"

There are also puppet kits available with this book which really brings
the story to life and let's the kids re-tell the story. I found them at Lakeshore Learning.

Funny, imaginative

The Wide-mouthed Frog is a wonderfully illustrated pop-up book, with great, detailed pop-ups. The story is simple: a wide-mouthed frog states what he eats and asks other denizens of the swamp what they eat, until he comes upon an alligator who eats... Well, the wide-mouthed frog becomes a small-mouthed frog and leaves with a big spalsh, which always elicts a laugh. This book is full of teaching possibilities, wonderful artistic details to pour over and a funny, simple story told in a great way.