num_pages: 32
description: Flora is asked to be a frog in the class play, but she is dismayed. Frogs are green and fat, and she is afraid that everyone will laugh at her.When Flora's mother and Aunt Jo make a frog costume for her, Flora promptly throws it up into a tree. To make matters worse, she later lies to her mother that all her friends at school liked the costume.But Flora makes a remarkable discovery after angrily throwing her ball over the backyard fence, where it lands next to a pond with three frogs jumping and sparkling with water drops. Slowly she realizes that being a frog in the play may not be so bad after all.Author Shirley Isherwood shows young readers that a little imagination can make anything—even a fat, green frog—special and fun. Illustrator Anna C. Leplar's joyous watercolors bring the appealing characters to life in this hilarious, relatable tale about honesty and big feelings.
language: English
title: Flora the Frog
titlecomplete: Flora the Frog
characters: Flora the Frog
genres: Picture Books
ratings_count: 30
publisher: Peachtree