Joy Cowley

Red-Eyed Tree Frog

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Why this book counts

  • Life Science
  • Environment & Ecology
  • Nature Narrative / Field Discovery
  • Story / Adventure

Red-Eyed Tree Frog follows one frog through a single night in a Central American rainforest as it searches for food and avoids predators. The photographic sequence turns nocturnal movement, feeding, camouflage, and predator-prey risk into a compact survival narrative.

The science inside

  • Animals & Zoology
  • Ecosystems

Your child will meet:

  • Nocturnal activity can help an animal find food while changing which predators it encounters.
  • Color, posture, movement, and location can reduce detection or help a frog escape.
  • A rainforest food web links the frog's prey, the frog, and animals that hunt it.
  • A sequence of photographs can document behavior across time without explaining an animal's thoughts.

Use it this way

Lay out the frog's night as three events—search, encounter, escape—and ask your child what visible behavior changes at each step. Treat the photographs as behavioral evidence without inventing motives, and never handle wild frogs because contact can harm both the animal and the person.

Parent effort: No prep

Let the Scholastic Bookshelf be your guide through the whole range of your child's experiences: laugh with them, learn with them, read with them!Sixteen bestselling titles available now! Category: NatureIn 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!

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