title: Tree Frogs (Nature Science Books)
author: Sylvia A. Johnson
description: ea. vol: diags. illus. glossary. index. tr. from Japanese. (Natural Science Bks.). CIP. Lerner. July 1986. PLB $12.95. Grade 4-6 Superb color photographs on almost every page and a clear, well-organized text distinguish both of these titles. Each describes the general, as well as the unique, physical characteristics of its subject; the type of environment in which it thrives; its food supply; and its reproductive cycle (both books include a series of close-up photographs depicting metamorphosis). Fireflies explains the function of this insect's cold light (a signal to attract appropriate mates) and describes how an internal chemical reaction causes it. Tree Frogs highlights this arboreal amphibian's large toe pads and explains how they afford the animal a tight grasp on tree trunks, etc. The text and photographs in each book focus on an Asian species; however, the information given generally applies to American species as well (an exception is the mating and egg laying activity of the Japanese tree frog). Good general books on fireflies and frogs are availableZim's Insects (1951) and Reptiles and Amphibians (1953, both Western) and Lane's The Frog (Dial, 1982) among thembut none are as specific or as detailed as the Johnson titles. McClung's excellent Peeper, First Voice of Spring (Morrow, 1977) is on a younger reading level and is illustrated with drawings, not photos. Karey Wehner, San Francisco Public Library<br />Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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