Oi
Frog! is undeniably super cool and very funny! Oi Frog! starts with a rather
bossy cat telling a frog that he must sit on a log. The frog protests and
complains “But I don’t want to sit on a log, logs are nobbly and uncomfortable.
And they can give you splinters in your bottom” to which the cat replies “I don’t
care, you’re a frog so you must sit on a log”. This starts the whole chain of
the rest of the hilarious book. Before
we know it we are being told that lions sit on irons and fleas sit on peas. It ends
with the poor frog asking the cat what do dogs sit on, to which we see a rather
uncomfortable looking frog being sat on by a dog on the last page.
Jim Field’s illustrations in Oi Frog are fantastic. I found
myself laughing four or five times whilst reading. I particularly liked his
illustrations of “apes sit on grapes”. My favourite thing about the artwork in
this book is how spot on the facial expressions are on each of the animal. The
frog, throughout looks rather worried and perplexed whilst all the other
animals have their own individual expression depending on what they are doing.
Lastly the wording is so much fun that you could play around
with it all day. It works very well as a memory game for kids to remember what
certain animals sit on. “What do puffins sit on?” “Why of course muffins!” You
could also chop and change the order you read the middle of this book to keep
it exciting and have children remembering where animals are supposed to sit in
different orders. All in all this is a bright, catchy, laugh out loud picture
book. I loved it.
