Resources for City Dog, Country Frog

City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems.  Illustrated by Jon J. Muth.  Hyperion Books for Children, 2010.

Author’s website:

www.mowillems.com

Mo Willems explains this book:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5co8FZXz0o

http://mowillemsdoodles.blogspot.com/2010/03/city-dog-country-frog-gets-star.html

Our interview with Mo Willems:  http://charlotteaward.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/mo-willems-interview-may-2011/

Illustrator’s website:

www.allensiegel/Finearts.com/muth_html

Illustrator’s biography:

http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/contributor.jsp?id=3736

Video on Reading Rockets:  http://www.readingrockets.org/books/interviews/muth

Publisher’s website:

www.hyperionbooksforchildren.com

Book reviews:

• http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/books/review/McMullan-t.html?_r=1
• http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781423103004/mo-willems/city-dog-country-frog
• http://richiespicks.pbworks.com/w/page/26631810/CITY-DOG,-COUNTRY-FROG
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/01/AR2010060103564.html
• http://blog.schoollibraryjournal.com/heavymedal/2010/10/07/city-dog-country-frog/

Lesson Ideas:

http://www.texaslibrarian.com/genres/picture-books/city-dog-country-frog-by-mo-willems/

• Seasons
• Lifecycles
• Friendship
• Compare/contrast with City Mouse and Town Mouse stories

http://ncteacherstuff.blogspot.com/2010/08/city-dog-country-frog.html

• Comparing urban and rural
• Inferencing

http://teacherthinktank.wordpress.com/2010/07/31/city-dog-country-frog/

• Seasons
• Writing

http://margodill.com/blog/2010/10/20/city-dog-country-frog/

• Life and death
• Seasons
• Friendship

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