Fiction, Reading Recovery Level 20, F&P level L, DRA Level 28, Theme Childrens Fiction, Stage TRANSITIONAL, Character

Reading assessment book for use with the running records on the Columbia University Teachers College Reading and Writing Project Web site. Students will relate to the tiny tadpole as he worries over the changes that are taking place that he has no control over. Will he learn to embrace the changes? GRL: J, RR/DLL: 18, DRA2: 18, Stage: Transitional-Early Fluent, Type: Fiction

Follows the life of a tadpole from spawn to frog.

A touch and feel first introduction to nature, updated with new tactiles since first publication. Young children learn all about how a seed changes and grows by following its amazing transformation into a colourful sunflower!

Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the seasons pass and he matures, his legs grow, and then his arms - and what happens to his beautiful rainbow friend? As he sits on his lily pad, digesting a butterfly, Tadpole little realises that now he will never know! Follow the predictable changes of a tadpole and a caterpillar to their natural conclusion in this award winning picture book.