I Took My Frog to the Library by Eric A. Kimmel

I Took My Frog to the Library Reviews

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  Abigail

  When Bridgett takes her frog to the library in this amusing picture-book romp, he jumps on the checkout desk and frightens the librarian. Each animal that Bridgett brings - a hen, pelican, python, giraffe, hyena and elephant - causes chaos, until finally the librarian tells her that her animals must stay at home...
  
  Although I never picked it up as a girl - it was published in 1990, at a time when I thought myself too mature for picture-books - I Took My Frog to the Library really brought me back to my childhood! The artwork of Blanche Sims is unmistakable, and reminded me strongly of the
  Kids of Polk Street School chapter-book series that was so popular when I was young, and which she also illustrated. The story here is fun, the mayhem amusing, and the implicit message to children - leave your pets at home, when visiting the library - is worked seamlessly into the over-the-top narrative. Recommended to all young animal lovers and library visitors.
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  Alicia Evans

  A girl takes her frog to the library, but things don't work out so well. She takes other animals too, but they have some issues behaving in the library as well. It's a little old so there are outdated things like card catalogs, but the story is adorable. I had this read to me in a storytime and all the kids loved it as well. There were many giggles and I am so glad that I've been introduced to this book.
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  Anthony

  The story of what can and will happen when Bridgett brings her pets to the library. A Frog, hen, pelican, python, giraffe, hyena, or an elephant (no matter how well behaved it is) should not be taken to a library. Silly Fun!
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  Library Lady Terri

  I always enjoy this book. I love the progression of animals and the shenanigans they get up to. We do need an update though - most libraries don't have a card catalog so the hen needs to lay her egg somewhere else. :-)
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  Casandria

  A silly classic picture book.
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  Becky

  First sentence: I took my frog to the library, but he jumped on the checkout desk and scared the librarian. I took my hen to the library, but she laid an egg in the card catalog.
  
  Premise/plot: Bridgett loves, loves, loves to go to the library. So do her animals. The librarian isn't so happy to see the animals. Can Bridgett find a way to make her animals AND the librarian happy?
  
  My thoughts: I really loved this one. I love stories that follow a pattern. That is I love picture books and early readers that follow a pattern. The pattern here, of course, is "I took my _____ to the library, but ________________________." I think parents and teachers could take advantage of the silliness and have little ones write their own stories. And the stories wouldn't even have to be only about the library.
  
  Text: 5 out of 5
  Illustrations: 4 out of 5
  Total: 9 out of 10
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  Suzanne Lorraine Kunz Williams

  I loved how this book showed actions and natural consequences. I also love how the librarian modeled kindness when requesting a solution. And I love how the girl didn't get offended at the request but found a way to go to the library and how to keep her animals happy. A wonderful book all around!
  
  **Talking points - How should you act when you go to the library or to other public places? When you see bad behavior that is disturbing people around you, should you ignore it or try in a kind way to stop it? When someone requests a change from you, how should you respond? Why?
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  Cindy

  In the book " I took My Frog to the Library" this girl named Bridgett tries to bring all of her animals to the library with her. She first tries to bring her frog, then her hen, pelican, python, giraffe, hyena, and elephant. I feel that this book really explains to kids why animals aren't allowed in a library or at any other place, but home. I feel that every kid wonders at some point why their pets aren't allowed to go with them places and this book perfectly describes why pets should stay at home.
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  Penney Letbetter

  I use this book every year, despite the fact that many things in it are out of date. But this year I use that to my advantage. I took the liberty to talk about what was different in the pictures from how things are now. We even talked about the students not having masks on their faces while they were gathering in the library. I don’t know if I will ever stop using this book at the beginning of the year. At the end we discuss what kind of animal students would like to bring into a library and then I get to talk about how I had a kitten spend a month in the library after its mom abandoned it.
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  Pug

  This was a pretty stupid book, as I expected. But it did make me chuckle a couple of times, namely when the chicken laid an egg in the card catalog! And then the surprise twist at the end where the well-behaved elephant reads to all of the other animals. For some reason, I didn't see that one coming!
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  Elysa Harwood

  I Took My Frog to the Library is a book that I enjoyed mainly because of the illustrations. I know children would be interested because of the animals that seen in the book. Each of the animals' characteristics were used as an interruption in the library, which I thought was creative. The illustrations were fun to look at, they were detailed, and I enjoyed every little detail in the pictures.
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  Natalie Hoist

  This was a cute story. It fun to read, but was not my favorite. It would be a good bed-time story, but I would not have this in my classroom. This book was about a girl who took her pets to the library.
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  Morgan

  Read this to 2nd graders today for outreach and it was quite funny! I hope none of these animals ever show up in my library!
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  Julia Crainshaw

  A little dated (card catalog!), but this book will make kinders and first graders laugh.
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  Jamie

  I always love to read this book during storytime. Sometimes, if I'm short on time, I have to skip the page about the chicken laying an egg in a card catalog...always have to explain a card catalog!
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  Diane

  A little girl takes different animals to the library and each creates its own brand of chaos. One of the “go to” read alouds for the beginning of the school year in the library.
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  Jan

  Outreach 02/2016
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  Brettianee Anderson

  We read and reread this book countless times in the 2 weeks we had it checked out
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  Brooke

  Leave your pets at home when visiting the library!
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  Brittany

  Fun story, but has the unintended message that not everyone is welcome in the library.
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  Jenna Scribbles

  A good way to open a discussion about library rules. It’s a bit outdated - mentions a card catalog, but nothing too drastic. Cute art. Lots of animals.
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  Erin Darmody

  Little kid brings eat of her pets to the library one by one. They all make an impression of their own. The elephant was the most memorable lol
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  Jennifer

  Cute and fun, perfect for preschool story time.
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  June

  This one went over very well with the Day Care. They loved telling me what animal came to the library next. This will become a standard for my library storytime. 1/27/12
  
  This went over so well for my library program that I used it for my frog too. The boys loved identifying animals and didn't seem to need any more coddling to listen to stories. 6/19/12
  
  I had one boy (who just wanted to play with the puppets, and attack his little sister) and a baby. None of the books seemed to keep the boys attention including
  Big Frog Can't Fit In: A pop-up book. The only thing that worked was the coloring sheet at the end. He asked for another to take home.
  
  (Heather does If you're Happy and you know it, but instead of shouting "Hooray" shouts "Let's Read!"
  
  She also does "Read, Read, Read a book" 4/4/13
  
  Used for Story Time again. 6/3/14
  
  Worked fairly well in story time, though some children wanted to tell me about their pets in length.