My paints are waiting in their tray.
I wonder what to paint today.
I think I’ll start with something blue, the brightest blue tree frog I’ve ever seen. And followed by not just one frog but 17 more tree frogs. So many frogs need a tree! For that we’ll need some green.
Our little tree frog climbs the tree. Do you wonder what he will see? Now we’ll paint something yellow. ‘Sunflowers and birds with yellow wings.’
Now our tree frog wants to fly. Will something red help him? On I go lifting up branches, finding our one small frog underneath. Then unbelievably he meets a red balloon, whisked away on an adventure.
This is a most amazingly beautiful book. As we learn colours and how, if mixed, they can create other colours we find surprises on every page. We peek under flaps, then flaps within flaps, to find our little tree frog having a wonderful time, all on magnificently illustrated by Sharon King-Chai using the bright colours of the paintbox.
A truly wonderful book. You can return to it again and again and find something new. Don’t miss it. It deserves more than five out of five stars, that’s for sure.
Reviewed by Merle Morcom
Age Guide 3+
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Julia Donaldson CBE is an English writer and playwright, and the 2011–2013 Children’s Laureate. She is best known for her popular rhyming stories for children, especially those illustrated by Axel Scheffler. She originally wrote songs for children’s television but has concentrated on writing books since the words of one of her songs, ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’, were made into a children’s book in 1993. Of her 184 published works, 64 are widely available in bookshops. The remaining 120 are intended for school use and include her Songbirds phonic reading scheme
Julia Donaldson is the author The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo’s Child illustrated by Alex Scheffler
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