Hop Frog

»Hop-Frog« is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, originally published in 1849. EDGAR ALLAN POE was born in Boston in 1809. After brief stints in academia and the military, he began working as a literary critic and author. He made his debut with the novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket in 1838, but it was in his short stories that Poe's peculiar style truly flourished. He died in Baltimore in 1849.

Frog helps Fox and Ox and Pollywog. But who will help Frog? This fun photographic easy-to-read story features the short "o" vowel sound. Kane Press's new series of super simple easy-to-reads, Bright Owl Books, launches with Molly Coxe's five photographic stories, which feature the short vowel sounds and are each only around 100 words. These irresistibly silly stories help kids learn to read through repetition and by teaching the basic building blocks of reading—vowel sounds—giving kids the perfect start on educational success.

How far could you hop?If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap!Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight?Read this book and find out what you could do -- if you had the amazing abilities of animals! And there are endless possibilities for making more hilarious comparisons of your own. Get ready for ratio and proportion like you've never seen them before!

"Hop-Frog" (originally "Hop-Frog; Or, the Eight Chained Ourang-Outangs") is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The title character, a person with dwarfism taken from his homeland, becomes the jester of a king particularly fond of practical jokes. Taking revenge on the king and his cabinet for the king's striking of his friend and fellow dwarf Trippetta, he dresses the king and his cabinet as orangutans for a masquerade. In front of the king's guests, Hop-Frog murders them all by setting their costumes on fire before escaping with Trippetta. Critical analysis has suggested that Poe wrote the story as a form of literary revenge against a woman named Elizabeth F. Ellet and her circle. Edgar Allan Poe is also famous for such works as ''The Raven'', "The Cask of Amontillado", "The Fall of the House of Usher", "The Masque of the Red Death", "The Pit and the Pendulum", "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", "The Tell-Tale Heart", "The Gold-Bug", "The Black Cat", "The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar", "Hop-Frog" and many more.

Finkelhopper Frog's jogging style and wild jogging suit meet with criticism until he runs into Ruby Rabbit.

Ten curious frogs trying to see what's on the other side of a wall illustrate the numbers from one to ten.

Here Edgar Allan Poe writes how he came to produce his poem.

* Book : Hop-Frog* Biographie* BibliographieHop-Frog est un nain qui a été enlevé de son pays natal pour devenir le bouffon d'un roi particulièrement friand en farces et autres blagues. Également boiteux, mais d'une force exceptionnelle au niveau des bras et très agile pour grimper, il doit son nom à sa démarche sautillante particulière. Sa seule amie est une naine admirablement proportionnée nommée Tripetta, également originaire de son pays. Le roi le convoque un jour pour qu'il lui donne une idée de déguisement pour un bal masqué et lui fait boire du vin pour se moquer de lui, sachant que Hop-Frog réagit très mal à l'alcool. Tripetta intervient en faveur de son ami et le roi la frappe et lui jette son gobelet de vin à la figure, à la grande hilarité des sept conseillers royaux. Hop-Frog, qui a dessoûlé instantanément, suggère alors au roi et aux conseillers de se déguiser pour le bal en orangoutans enchaînés ensemble. Le roi, aimant l'idée d'effrayer les autres invités, accepte avec enthousiasme.Le soir du bal, le roi et ses conseillers surgissent soudain, dans leurs costumes très réalistes et tous enchaînés ensemble, au grand effroi de tous les invités. Au milieu du chaos, Hop-Frog attache la chaîne du lustre aux chaînes des huit hommes, qui sont alors entraînés loin au-dessus du sol (probablement par Tripetta qui manoeuvre un système de treuil). Hop-Frog se hisse jusqu'aux huit hommes et les approche avec une torche sous prétexte de les démasquer. Il met le feu à leurs costumes très inflammables et tous les huit sont très vite brûlés vifs, alors que Hop-Frog, avant de s'échapper par le toit et de disparaître avec Tripetta, dévoile leurs identités aux invités ainsi que les raisons de sa vengeance.

Winner of the 2015 Edgar Award for Best Critical/Biographical! Follow the footsteps of the father of American horror fiction. Edgar Allan Poe was an oddity: his life, literature, and legacy are all, well, odd. In Poe-Land, J. W. Ocker explores the physical aspects of Poe’s legacy across the East Coast and beyond, touring Poe’s homes, examining artifacts from his life—locks of his hair, pieces of his coffin, original manuscripts, his boyhood bed—and visiting the many memorials dedicated to him. Along the way, Ocker meets people from a range of backgrounds and professions—actors, museum managers, collectors, historians—who have dedicated some part of their lives to Poe and his legacy. Poe-Land is a unique travelogue of the afterlife of the poet who invented detective fiction, advanced the emerging genre of science fiction, and elevated the horror genre with a mastery over the macabre that is arguably still unrivaled today.

Ten polliwogs are swimming about in a muddy bog and gradually, one-by-one, they turn into frogs. Suggested level: junior.