Spot The Frog

So many of today's comic strips feature edgy characters. Spot the Frog is gentler, more whimsical, with a sense of the fantastic. It's about innocence and wisdom and the complete appreciation of what you have." Spot the Frog is a wild and gentle strip, an oddball of modern comics. The humor springs from misadventure and friendship, where the characters are more likely to lend a hand than give a push. Spot the Frog hops from the page in high spirits, pleasant and good-natured, a refreshing alternative to the daily concerns of a cynical world. The change is like a cool breeze across a pond on a blistering summer day. Spot the Frog is the first collection of Mark Heath's charming new comic strip. Through its pages readers meet Spot, an amiable little amphibian; grandfatherly Karl, Spot's favorite two-legged mammal; and Buddy, a bespectacled fellow-frog who is Spot's best pal. This trio finds its way in and out of life's challenges and joys, never needing more than each other and their immediate surroundings to generate plenty of laughs and lighter views of the world at large. Spot the Frog is a tribute to Heath's originality, his beautifully rendered characters, and the artist-writer's ability to successfully swim against the stream. Author's web site: www.spotthefrog.net/

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Follow the frog through the park, around the town, on the beach and up in the air! It's light and bright in the park today. Who's singing a song and who's running away? Who's cross with a ball? Who's out for a jog? Who's having a snooze? And WHERE'S THE FROG? Follow the frog as he goes on an adventure through this busy book, with plenty of other fun things to spot and stories to follow on the way. SELLING POINTS: * Busy scenes packed with things to spot, plus visual stories for children to follow from page to page * Narrative story links everything together: Frog is going on holiday! Fun rhyming text always ends on a question: 'Where's the frog?' AUTHOR: Stephan Lompis a co­founder of the award­winning underground comic anthology 'Herrensahne' and has exhibited in Luxembourg, Luzern and Cologne. He has published three books for children in Germany including 'The ZOO ABC'.

Mark Heath's cartoons have a warmth and energetic innocence that just make you want to smile." -Casey Shaw, USA Weekend * Spot the Frog is internationally syndicated to papers ranging from the Chicago Tribune and Houston Chronicle to Canada's Vancouver Sun and Spain's Trinidad Guardian. It's Hard to Comb a Grass Toupee follows Mark Heath's unlikely cast of cartoon creations, including amiable amphibian Spot, his grandfatherly two-legged mammal friend Karl, and Spot's bespectacled best friend and fellow frog Buddy. Together these friends explore the lighter side of life offering readers Zenlike escape and reflection in answering such questions as: Do frogs prefer boxers or briefs? Do snow goats winter in Karl's freezer? Are turtles so slow that they're actually fast? And can a grass toupee guarantee happiness? Author's web site: www.spotthefrog.net/

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Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children. The Princess and the Frog is the story of a beautiful princess who is forced to keep her promise to a helpful frog, with magical consequences! This Ladybird Tale is based on the original Ladybird retelling by Vera Southgate, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best - full of richness and detail. Children have always loved and will always remember these classic stories and sharing them together is an experience to treasure.

Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore form, color, and pattern, and capture the very unique nature of frogs in this brilliantly illustrated picture book. Perfect for fans of The Beetle Book, and young readers looking for nonfiction about this perennially fascinating animal. Long legs, sticky tongues, big round eyes, and other dazzling features--what's not to love about frogs? In this magnificently illustrated picture book, Caldecott Honor-winning team Steve Jenkins and Robin Page explore one of the world's most diverse--and most threatened--animals. With more than 5,000 different frog species on the planet, in every color of the rainbow and a vast number of vivid patterns, no creatures are more fascinating to learn about or look at. Jenkins and Page present a stunning array of these intriguing amphibians and the many amazing adaptations they have made to survive.

The adventure continues in Room 26 with Humphrey's frog-tastic best friend, Og the Frog! Og the Frog has just moved into Room 26, and the place is hopping. There are lively kids, new routines, and a furry neighbor who seems to squeak all day. Luckily, everyone seems friendly and--BING, BANG, BOING!--some even put juicy crickets in his tank. But just as Og is getting used to this new life, there is talk of sending him back to the pond. Sure, he misses his friends, but now he has a lot more time for his favorite hobby--making up songs and poems--and he loves listening to his new friends and giving them encouraging BOINGS just when they need them. And there's that steady supply of crickets . . . Og doesn't want to say goodbye to his new life or his furry neighbor. But will his classmates decide to keep Og as their classroom pet or take him back to his old life, at the pond?