The Flying Frog and the Kidnappers: An adventure for children 9-14, teens and mystery lovers (The Flying Frog series book 4)

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Wallace’s flying frog occurs in moist tropical forests. The frog mainly occupies the mid-canopy level. The species is widely distributed and occurs in several protected areas. Its population is considered stable. Tuesday is a wordless picture book that vividly depicts strange events that happened at various times of the day on Tuesday. The story contains only six words and three points that determine the time of the action. The whole story is narrated by colorful pictures of frogs flying on their lily pads. When the frog leaps from a branch it extends its limbs and splays its webbed feet to create a large surface area. The membranes catch the air like sails, and allow the frog to glide distances of up to 15m (50 ft.).

Once the children have had plenty of opportunities to explore the pictures and talk about what interests them, invite them to tell the story from the point of view of one of the frogs, using the pictures to help sequence the story. They can use their oral version as a basis for a written narrative. News report Leonard, Andrew. "Sent In The Clouds. The story, told entirely without words, of an ingenious boy who changes the way the sky looks". The New York Times. At the Rhode Island School of Design, Wiesner was able to commit himself to the full-time study of art and to explore further his passion for wordless storytelling. There he met two people who would figure prominently in his life: Tom Sgouros, to whom Tuesday is dedicated, and David Macaulay, to whom The Three Pigs is dedicated. These two men not only taught Wiesner the fundamentals of drawing and painting but also fostered his imaginative spirit and helped him comprehend the world around him. Sgouros's and Macaulay's artistic influences were vital to Wiesner's development into the acclaimed picture-book author he is today. Alternatively, cover the title of the book so that children cant read it and after reading ask them what they think the title might be. Reveal the title and discuss whether they are surprised. What might be happening inside the houses? Talk briefly about the sorts of things people might be doing at this time of night.

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Tuesday” is an excellent book about the power of using one’s imagination as magic is the main theme here and this book will surely be an instant treat to children who love books dealing with adventure and imagination. I would recommend this book to children ages three and up since the majority of the book is wordless and young children will easily enjoy the illustrations. Then on my second visit a week later, I asked when she'd be calling my wife and she said "I don't think I have to." So it sounds to me like they have enough evidence to make a call, but I can't tell what they're gonna say, and I don't find out for 2 more weeks. One frog is choosing to look at a painting rather than watch television with the other frogs. Do you think they have different personalities? You were right. I got an official diagnosis today. Aspergers obviously doesn't exist anymore, and my ADOS score was 12, so I asked if I would have been diagnosed with aspergers under the DSM IV rules rather than autism proper, and they said most likely yes. The foamy egg mass is attached to branches, leaves or other suitable surfaces hanging over the water. When the embryos turn into larvae, the bubble nest falls apart, and the tadpoles drop into the water. The young stay in the pond or wallow until they have metamorphosed into the adult form.

You could give the children speech bubble Post-its to write the dialogue. Share their suggestions. ‘Tuesday evening around eight’ Reports of frogs that could either be Wallace’s flying frog or a very similar species have been made in several other countries including Laos, Vietnam and China. Habitat Tree-climbing snakes are known predators of Wallace’s flying frogs. Is Wallace’s Flying Frog Endangered? I don't think anyone knows what they are looking for because it's a secret they keep between each other. If they told anyone what they were looking for, then it could screw with the results and people could purposely mess up on the tests because they were trying to get the ASD diagnoses. Sadly there are people who do want a specific label and will keep going until they get it. But I do know that picture sequencing is used to test your TOM because Simon Baron Cohan did a study on it in 1985 and he saw that autistic children didn't do well with them. Do you think the police will solve the mystery? What explanation might they come up with for the night’s events?In this picture, the birds on the telegraph wires appear to be talking to each other. What do you imagine they might be saying? In time, the young Wiesner began exploring the history of art, delving into the Renaissance at first — Michelangelo, Dürer, and da Vinci — then moving on to such surrealists as Magritte, de Chirico, and Dalí. As he got older, he would sit, inspired by these masters, at the oak drafting table his father had found for him and would construct new worlds on paper and create wordless comic books, such as Slop the Wonder Pig, and silent movies, like his kung fu vampire film The Saga of Butchula. Where has David Wiesner positioned the reader? (Behind the frogs, on the same level. To the reader it looks as though we are flying along with the frogs).

The overachieving Wallace's flying frog wasn't content to just hop and swim. Thousands of years of watching birds navigate the rain forest and avoid predators by taking to the sky appears to have convinced this unique amphibian that air travel is the way to go. In the Air Female Wallace’s flying frogs produce a fluid which they beat into foam with their hind limbs. They then lay their eggs inside the resulting bubble nest. The male frog fertilizes the eggs with sperm as they are being laid by the female. Wallace’s flying frog is a large, vivid green tree frog. Photo by Bernard DUPONT from FRANCE (Wallace’s Flying Frog (Rhacophorus nigropalmatus)) [ CC BY-SA 2.0]Wallace’s flying frog is one of the largest flying frogs. Like all flying frogs its body is lighter in weight than that of a non-flying frog of the same size, and its hands and feet are enlarged with extensive webbing between the fingers and toes. Look carefully, how has David Wiesner drawn the picture to show that the frog stops suddenly? Can you explain how he has shown that? Very little is known about this elusive species that spends most of its life high in the rainforest canopy. What Does Wallace’s Flying Frog Look Like?

Watch the video below to find out more about the species, or scroll down for in-depth info on this awesome frog … Text isn’t a direct contributor the story; there’s a grand total of six words in the whole story and are used to describe the time and date. What it does instead is create a mysterious and tone; The use of so little words in the story make the reader feel like they don’t really know what will happen. The line “Tuesday evening, around eight,” is very vague, not revealing anything, just the time. The time of day revealed in the text also adds to the tone. For a child, that time usually means time for bed but for the story, it means the beginning. The three frames zoom in on the turtle sitting on a log. This technique is used a lot in films. An establishing shot opens a film and is then followed by close-ups. Ask the children to think about the information we can get from an establishing shot (e.g. setting). The information can we get from a close-up (e.g. emotions and reactions). Notice where the turtle is looking. Does the direction change? What might this suggest? Flying frogs

Imagine you are an expert on the ‘Tuesday Evening Phenomenon’. A journalist has come to interview you. In pairs, improvise the interview. Share your ideas in a group. Which did you like best? Crepuscular tones Haverford College. " "Storytelling without Words," a public Student Seminar talk by David Wiesner" . Retrieved 17 November 2014. Distribute the books or project an image of the front cover using a visualiser. In pairs, ask the children to look closely to work out what’s happening. Create a twilight palette of blues, greens and greys as David Wiesner has done. Paint a scene from the book, or your own scene set at this time of day. You might like to use the internet or other sources to find an image of John Singer Sargent’s ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ and talk about the way the artists has captured the twilight with white flowers and glowing lanterns. Prize-winning booksTuesday” is a Caldecott Award winning book from the creative mind of David Wiesner and is about how some seemingly ordinary frogs from a pond go on a magical adventure throughout the city. David Wiesner’s story of a magic along with his beautiful illustrations makes “Tuesday” a mesmerizing book for children.