This book is written by Marty Crump and illustrations by Steve Jenkins and Edel Rodriguez. This book is about  Charles Darwin's frogs who lives in Chile. The frog has a very distinctive flap of skin on the end of its nose and is a species in which males help bring their offspring to maturity. The female frogs lay the eggs and the males swallow the tadpoles and they further develop in the vocal sac and are burped into existence.

The illustrations are a combination of drawings and photographs and compliments the narrative very nicely. The book combined illustrations of a traditional collage format and regular photographs.

My thoughts about the book was that it was a very interesting book which teaches children about the frog which Charles Darwin discovered. Although, I am terrified of frogs and found my skin crawling at times it was quite interesting. I think this book would be wonderful for children who are fascinated with nature or frogs. This book would be good for adolescents to read from grades 3-10.

Questions i would ask the class? 1. What is it about this story that you were intrigued about the most?  and Why? 2. Do you think that this type of frog actually exist? If not why?

Classroom activities:
1. Draw and describe your own unique frog and tell us what makes your frog so different.
2. The class will take a field trip in the woods and find as many different species of frogs and collect them and see what make them different from the frog in the story.

published April 1 2013 by Boyds Mills Press