This book focuses on the behaviour of green tree frogs and teaches children to appreciate bush creatures and listen to their messages. Ages 4+.

Green tree frogs are experts at fooling predators on the hunt for a tasty meal. These frogs have bright green skin that helps them hide among leaves and grass. Hungry animals like snakes and birds can't see them easily when they blend in with their surroundings. The tree frogs can stay safe by hiding in plain sight! Packed with fascinating facts and photos that will test children's detective skills, this book will engage emergent readers as they learn how green tree frogs are adapted for survival. A section of the book highlights other frogs that are camouflaged to look like the plants in their environment.

Each year monsoonal rains sweep across the Top End and the green tree frogs clamber from their hiding places to feed, breed and sing! 'Green Tree Frogs' is an affectionate celebration of these cheeky characters and of life in the wet season. It also provides an entertaining insight into the amphibious life cycle. AUTHOR: Sandra lives in Darwin, The Northern Territory with her partner and two girls and works in her studio under their troppo house making pictures with oils, mixed media and digital montage to tell stories.

Picasso can change colour. In trees he turns green. In mud he turns brown. In water he turns blue. One day, he fell into a jar of jellybeans and turned all sorts of colours!

"With magical, concise and perceptive poems, Newbery-Honor winning author Joyce Sidman captures the life of a tree frog in an intimate and moving way. A master of the science note, her fascinating sidebars help bind the twin poems together and ground our perspective. We learn how treefrogs have sticky toe pads, how they still themselves when in danger, how they can change from green to gray to camouflage themselves - even how they eat their own skins, which is full of nutrients. The narrator's connection with this small creature brings solace, comfort, and a sense of mystery"--

Describes green tree frogs, discussing their physical characteristics, habitat, life cycle, and ability to evade their predators by blending into their environment.

In the Go Books Blue series for beginning readers, following from the emergent Green level and the early Gold level of Go Books. One of a set of six readers with the theme of pets. Old Grandfather Bullfrog tells Widja never to leave the swamp, but his curiosity gets the better of him. A teacher's guide is also available.