King of the Pond

by Carl Sommer

Book Overview

Tombo, the self-proclaimed biggest, fastest, and strongest tadpole, teases and chases all the other tadpoles. Tombo finally learns that having friends is better than being King of the Pond. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1575370166
• ISBN13: 9781575370163
• Release Date: August 2000
• Publisher: Advance Publishing(TX)
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 5 to 9 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 4

Customer Reviews

SO MANY LESSONS IN SUCH A LITTLE BOOK.

Like the other books in this series, this one is a wonderful study guide for children on severl levels. So many lessons to learn here and so well written! The King of the Pond is about growing up, in this case from a tadpole to a frog. It teaches lessons in forgiveness, sportsmanship and most importantly respect for others and humility. We not only get a wonderful little story nature, i.e. how frogs get here, but a wonderful little story of the nature of people. Like every book in this wonderful series, the illustrations are simple, to the point and great. This is a great little book to discuss one on one with a child or use with an entire classroom full of children. Recommend this one quite highly.

King of the Pond

King of the Pond is about a big bully named Tombo. He boasts to all his friends that he is the biggest, strongest and fastest tadpole in the pond. As the story continues a boy named Alex comes to the pond to catch fish. But instead sees Tombo and catching him for a pet. After Tombo returns to the pond as a frog he realizes how important friends are, as he returns now as the smallest FROG in the pond. Tombo learns a good lesson in the importance of friendship, forgiveness and of being a good sport.

Don't Be A Show Off!

King of the Pond, was a cute book as well as a book to learn from. It could be used in a science class for children to learn where frogs come from. It had excellent illustrations and a very good storyline. I'm sure glad that Tombo made it back to the pond. He learned a valuable lesson about boasting. Thanks Sommer, I will use this one in an integrated science lesson.