Oi Frog!

 

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.