[For this booktalk,
put a sticky tab on the following pages: pages {4-5}: “City Dog spotted
something…”, pages {22-23, rainy day}, pages {28-29, frog sits on dog’s nose},
and pages {30-31:dusk}.
[Show cover.] Do frogs and dogs hang out together? [Invite brief discussion.] Okay, so maybe
they don’t usually hang out and
befriend one another.
But City Dog is unique. [Show
pages 4-5] He was out in the countryside, probably on vacation, when he
spotted a frog, quietly sitting on a rock. He talked to frog, and it turned out
that frog was waiting for a friend. Frogs are like that. [Turn the page.] Frog knows all sorts of country games that city dog
does not know, and he’s happy to teach city dog. [Turn the page.] What could be more fun than playing in a creek? [Turn page.] I think this picture is one
of my favorite picture book pictures ever: city dog is giving country frog a
ride on his head in the creek.
But not everything they do is funny like that. Friendship is
made of quiet activities too: enduring rainy days [show pages 22-23], talking [show
pages 28-29], and just hanging out [show pages 30-31]. All friendships are special, but there is
something unique about the friendship of city dog and country frog.
City Dog, Country Frog
by Mo Willems, pictures by Jon J. Muth. Hyperion, 2010. Unpaged. Booktalk to
preschool – 2nd grade. Virginia Readers’ Choice, 2012-2013.
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