Top 30 Frog Books for Toddlers & PreK: Picture Books & Nonfiction
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Some creatures become a staple in almost everyone’s childhood memories. The frog books for toddlers and preschoolers on this list will inspire an afternoon of frog hunting or evenings listening to bullfrogs croak. This list includes favorite quality frog board books, frog picture books, nonfiction frog books, and books that explore the tadpole to frog life cycle.
Frog Books for Toddlers
Hop Jump
By Ellen Still Walsh
Readers will enjoy a story about how one frog wants to break the mold and do more than just hop and jump. Find a bunny companion book on the spring books list.
Hoppity Frog
By Emma Parrish
Hoppity Frog is a sensory-rich board book that introduces readers to the other animals in the frog’s habitat. This is mistakenly labeled hardcover on bookshop.org (check description).
Can You See Me?
By Yoyo Books
This textured frog board book will help toddlers get in touch with frog concepts.
A Frog in the Bog
By Karma Wilson, illustrated by Joan Rankin
This board book introduces counting and rhyming concepts while following a goofy frog through his day. This title is available in paperback and hardcover too.
Little Green Frog
By Ginger Swift & Cottage Door Press, illustrated by Olga Demidova
This frog board book offers an extra dose of sensory play and surprise with lifting flaps.
Five Green and Speckled Frogs: Count-and-Sing
By Priscilla Burris
This frog board book gives life to a favorite children’s counting song.
Nature Stories: Little Frog
By Igloobooks, illustrated by Gisela Bohórquez
Little Frog is a sweet frog board book introducing frog concepts like the frog life cycle and habitat.
More Frog Board Books for Toddlers
- Tadpoles and Frogs by Laura Deo
- How Does a Tadpole Grow? by Eric Carle
- Tadpole to Frog by American Museum of Natural History
Books About Frog Life Cycle
If your child was fascinated by the life cycle of the butterfly, these tadpole to frog life cycle books are the perfect next learning activity.
Tadpole to Frog
By American Museum of Natural History
I always love a board book with real photographs. They shouldn’t be such a rarity. This nonfiction frog board book introduces toddlers to frog concepts through photographs.
Tadpoles and Frogs
By Annabel Savery, illustrated by Laura Deo
This frog board book includes cutouts to make your own frog life cycle models. Readers will love this simple but unique introduction to frog facts and the frog life cycle.
Life Cycle of a Frog
By Grace Jones
This nonfiction frog book for kids explores the science behind the frog life cycle.
How Does a Tadpole Grow?
By Eric Carle
This frog board book explores the tadpole to frog life cycle. Children and caregivers will love the unique illustration style of Eric Carle.
Frog Picture Books & Stories
It’s Mine!
By Leo Lion
The frog characters in this frog story learn life lessons about cooperation, selfishness, and sharing.
The Green Frogs: A Korean Folktale
By Yumi Heo
These frogs are little troublemakers and do the opposite of everything their mama says. What happens when child frogs are rebellious?
Tuesday
By David Wiesner
An incredible wordless book that follows frogs on an unexpected adventure (and it’s only Tuesday).
Goodnight Frog
By Amber Lily, illustrated by Zhanna Ovocheva
Bringing a STEM activity to a frog book, Goodnight Frog encourages readers to use a flashlight to learn even more about the frog’s companions.
Five Little Speckled Frogs
By Nikki Smith
This frog picture book is a simple, lovely way for kids to enjoy a favorite counting song.
RESOURCE: Companion activity book for Five Little Speckled Frogs.
Coquà in the City
By Nomar Perez
A child confronts his fears and sadness about moving away from his family and pet frog.
I Don’t Want to Be a Frog
By Dev Petty, illustrated by Mike Boldt
This frog book is part of a more extensive frog series. In I Don’t Want to Be a Frog, our main character shares about his identity crisis while his dad helps him through it.
Dear Treefrog
By Joyce Sidman, illustrated by Diana Sudyka
The author uses poetry to share the connection between a young girl and a small tree frog.
The Wide-Mouthed Frog: A Pop-Up Book
By Keith Faulkner, illustrated by Jonathan Lambert
A frog pop-up book! This playful book teaches children about frogs and other critters that frogs encounter.
Nonfiction Frog Books
Illustrated Nonfiction Frog Books
Fanatical about Frogs
By Owen Davey
This is definitely a more advanced nonfiction frog book; however, the graphics give children a unique look at frogs in a way other books on this list simply don’t. This is a children’s frog guide that readers can grow up with.
A Frog’s Life
By Irene Kelly, illustrated by Margherita Borin
This illustrated nonfiction frog book explores different frog species, frog behavior, and frog conservation efforts.
Frogs
By Gail Gibbons
This simple, to-the-point nonfiction frog book for children includes colorful diagrams and age-appropriate frog vocabulary.
A Frog’s Dangerous Home
By Mary Ellen Klukow, illustrated by Albert Pinilla
This illustrated nonfiction frog book is very different from the others on the list. This children’s book focuses on the dangers that frogs face in their habitats and the impact of pollution.
The Frog Book
By Steve Jenkins
This is a colorful, illustrated nonfiction frog book that shows readers all the diversity of frogs around the world.
The Toad
By Elise Gravel
Bonus: A toad book.
This nonfiction book shares all the creepy, crawly, and icky toad facts that kids love to learn.
I loved Elise Gravel’s book on my spider book list so much, that I couldn’t keep The Toad from you.
Nonfiction Frog Books with Photographs
Ribbit! The Truth about Frogs
By Annette Whipple, illustrated by Jaunbjuan Oliver
We learned the truth about spiders in Whipple’s book on our spider book list. Time to learn all about frogs.
Adults love teaching toddlers about the sounds that animals make.
Personally, I absolutely adore the fact that different languages have different words to interpret animal sounds. Explore more frog sounds than just “ribbit” in Rose Adams article.
Being Frog
By April Pulley Sayre
Readers can enjoy learning about frogs through visually-rich photographs of frogs.
Check out more of April Pulley Sayre’s incredible books on my list of must-have weather books.
Frogs: National Geographic Kids
By Elizabeth Carney
This is another fantastic nonfiction frog book by National Geographic. The photographs and frog facts help extend any kid’s interest in frogs. This frog book is a higher-level book that still deserves a home on a young reader’s bookshelf.
So Cool! Frogs
By Crispin Boyer
So Cool! Frogs is a goofy, quick-read nonfiction frog book about some of the craziest frog behavior.
Red-Eyed Tree Frog
By Joy Cowley, photographs by Nic Bishop
Early learners can draw connections between the frogs near their homes and the red-eyed tree frog in the rainforest. This book includes bright photographs that help readers explore an exotic frog species.
Explore My World: Frogs
By Marfe Delano
Explore My World: Frogs is another nonfiction National Geographic book about frogs for young readers. The Explore My World series includes some of the best nonfiction books for youngest learners.
Did you spend afternoons in your childhood searching for frogs? The frog books on this list will keep your toddler or preschooler captivated by these creatures. By the time the book closes, they will be ready to go on their own frog hunting adventure.
