The Mysterious Tadpole

I enjoyed reading this one with my elementary school classes, and it's still a charming book with fun illustrations!

Every year for his birthday, Louis recieves a special gift from his uncle. This year he got a tadpole... but it was no ordinary one. Through a steady diet of hamburgers, Louis's tadpole grew into an enormous creature too big for their house. So big, that it needed a entire swimming pool to live in.Kellog's illustrations in this book are great and the story is exciting and entertaining. I would use this to talk about how everyone has special aspects about them and should be appreciated for differences.

For his birthday, Louis' uncle has given him a very unusual tadpole from Scotland.Now he must figure out where to keep his fast growing pet.

When Louis receives a tadpole as a pet from his uncle McAllister, he has to learn how to face the challenges of the little creature becoming a very big one. By first moving him to the sink, later the bathtub, this adventure continues on and on until many disasters are caused and many friends are made.

The Mysterious Tadpole is a cute story about a boy who receives an egg for his nature collection that he believes to be a frog egg. The tadpole keeps getting bigger and bigger and eventually had to live in the junior high pool. Eventually the tadpole has to find somewhere else to live so the Louis, his owner, had to figure another way for him to stay with him. They end up finding a way for him to stay and Louis got to keep his big tadpole which turns out to be a Loch Ness monster. This is great for kids who like to use their imagination.

I thought this was a very cute and funny book. It is a story about a little boy named Louis who was celebrating his birthday. His Uncle McAllister sent him a gift to add to his nature collection; a tadpole was part of it. When the tadpole, which Louis named Alphonse, grew to be enormous, Louis's parents told him that he needed to find a new place to keep Alphonse. Louis received help from Mrs. Seevers, who was the junior high school librarian. Together, they decided to search for a treasure chest that pirates lost many years ago. Once they found it, they then had enough money to build a swimming pool in the empty lot next to Louis's house; Alphonse had a new home. This is a good picture book for children because it is very colorful. I would read it to children in kindergarten through third grade. One good time to read it is when a student has an upcoming birthday. Another good time is when students are learning about animals and how they live because it shows the life of a tadpole. In addition, it could be read when students are learning about pirates because it involves a missing treasure chest that was lost by pirates.