The Wide-Mouthed Frog

The Wide-Mouthed Frog is a short and funny landscape picture book about a frog that meets different animals and asks them what they eat. The frog’s wide mouth is die-cut right through the book, so that it is always open wide and smiling (and so large that I have seen kids using it as a handle for the book when carrying it around). The one element of paper engineering is at the end, when the frog quickly closes his mouth when told that crocodiles eat frogs. The text fits well with the humour of Michael Terry’s boldly characterized illustrations, which are very well done and fit the unusual construction of this book perfectly.