When the princess accidentally drops her ball in the pond she doesn't expect a frog to bring it back to her, and certainly doesn't expect the frog to follow her home! But is the frog really all he seems? This wordless version of the traditional tale is stunningly illustrated by author and illustrator Chris Fisher.
* Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless books that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work.
* Text type: A wordless traditional story
* The storyboard on pp.14-15 shows the frog's transformation into a prince, allowing children to re-cap and retell the story.
* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Living in a Diverse World
This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .
This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.
There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Chris Fisher is well-known for his vivid, lively illustration style. He has illustrated over 40 titles for Walker Books, Hodder, Puffin, Scholastic and HarperCollins. Chris lives in Bristol. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.
This book contains the following story:
The Frog Prince
When she loses her beautiful golden ball at the bottom of the well, the princess is very upset. Then an ugly frog offers to help but in return he asks that she take him as her friend, to eat at her plate and sleep on her bed. The princess does not believe the frog will be able to escape from the well and wants her toy so she agrees to the terms. The frog rescues the ball but once she has it the princess runs away back to the castle. Later there is a knock at the door and the princess is forced to admit to her father what happened. The King demands that she keep her promise and so the frog joins them for dinner, eating from her plate and then follows the princess up to bed. When the princess kisses the frog he turns into a handsome prince and they live happily ever after. [Note: In the original Grimm retelling an angry princess throws him at the wall and he turns into a prince.]
This book is in the following series:
Collins Big Cat
The Collins Big Cat series is a fully structured reading scheme with both fiction and non fiction titles. The series was designed to build speaking and listening as well as reading skills. Every book contains a unique reader response activity plus reading tips including suggested comprehension activities and curriculum links.
