Red-Eyed Tree Frog (Scholastic Bookshelf) - Softcover

Cowley, Joy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 043978221X ISBN 13: 9780439782210

Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks, 2006

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Category: Nature
In a tropical rain forest in Central America, a red-eyed tree frog spends the night looking for food while avoiding potential predators. Award-winning photographer Nic Bishop's larger-than-life, gorgeous images document the hunt, which ends happily with the frog settling down in the leaves to spend his daylight hours sleeping! Joy Cowley's simple, readable text makes the frog's story fun, interesting, and accessible to young readers. This is a nature tale like you've never seen before!

About this title

From the Publisher

Winner of the Boston Globe/Horn Book Award for Picture Books
Look at nature with a whole new set of eyes! Here is an excitiing new way to see the natural world. Join the adventure as one plucky red-eyed tree frog searches for something to eat -- and avoids the many dangers of the rain forest. There are tempting but poisonous caterpillars and hungry boa snakes ready to swallow little tree frogs! Nic Bishop's bold and spectacular close-up photographs and Joy Cowley's engaging and informative text bring into vibrant focus the wonder of earth's creatures large and small.

About the Author

Sibert Medalist Nic Bishop is the author and photographer of many award-winning books for children, including Red-Eyed Tree Frog; Chameleon, Chameleon; Nic Bishop Spiders; and most recently, Nic Bishop Snakes. He has a doctorate in biological sciences and a passionate interest in many of the smaller animals on our planet. Nic lives in New Zealand. Visit him online at nicbishop.com.
Joy Cowley began to write for children as a way to help her son with his reading. Since then, she has written over 400 books for early readers, including the Boston Globe/Horn Book winner Red-Eyed Tree Frog, Mrs. Wishy-Washy, Big Moon Tortilla, and Gracias, The Thanksgiving Turkey. Her latest title is Chameleon, Chameleon, which is a follow-up to the Red-Eyed Tree Frog. She currently writes for both adults and children.

In grade school, Joy was struggled with reading. However, when she discovered the adventures found in books, she "forgot" that she couldn't read. "By the age of 11, I was a book addict who haunted the local library," says Joy. " And like all children who over-dose on reading, I penned the overflow. Writing too, became an addiction."

She married a farmer when she was twenty-years-old, lived on a dairy farm and raised four children. "During those years I milked cows, changed diapers, made puppets and play dough and wrote short stories in the evenings." Joy states. An editor in New York read one of those stories, reprinted in Short Story International. That query led to five novels for adults. She was also writing stories for her son Edward, who was a slow reader. These little stories made their way to other children, other schools and by the early 1970s, teachers were making "big books" from them to use with their students. "Can you get these stories published?" they asked.

Joy is still writing full-time. These days the creative hours are divided between adult writing - articles, spiritual reflection material, stories and novels - and books for children.

Joy Cowley lives in New Zealand with her family.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 043978221X
• ISBN 13: 9780439782210
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 32