Title: Frog Girl
Author: Paul Owen Lewis
Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3rd-12th
Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing
Author: Paul Owen Lewis
Illustrator: Paul Owen Lewis
Type: Fiction
Approximate Interest Level: 3rd-12th
Publisher: Beyond Words Publishing
Date of Publication: 1997
ISBN: 978-1885223579
Synopsis: A native girl watches as two native boys hunt frogs at a lake. After the boys leave, a frog leads her to a village under the lake. A grandmother in the village implores the girl to bring the frogs back. The girl returns to her village to find a nearby volcano erupting. She tries to warn the others in her village, but finds only the frogs. She gathers them up and returns them to the lake. It begins to rain, and the volcano goes quiet. The people return to the village and the girl tells them about the frogs.
ISBN: 978-1885223579
Synopsis: A native girl watches as two native boys hunt frogs at a lake. After the boys leave, a frog leads her to a village under the lake. A grandmother in the village implores the girl to bring the frogs back. The girl returns to her village to find a nearby volcano erupting. She tries to warn the others in her village, but finds only the frogs. She gathers them up and returns them to the lake. It begins to rain, and the volcano goes quiet. The people return to the village and the girl tells them about the frogs.
The final two pages of the book contain information about native tribes in the Pacific Northwest and the motifs that can be found in their stories.
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