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MELBOURNE, MUNICH, AND DELHI
Writer Angela Royston
Art Editor Nigel Hazle
Photographers Kim Taylor, Jane Burton
REVISED PAPERBACK EDITION
Project Editor Charlie Gardner
Designers Hannah Mee, Wayne Redwood
Production Controller Vivianne Ridgeway
DTP Designer
David Meier
Jacket Designer Adam Hall
U.S. Editor
Jennifer Quasha
First published in the United States in 1991
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This frog is my mother.
She has just laid these eggs in the water.
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Each egg is growing into a tadpole.
One of them is me!
Each black egg is
surrounded by clear jelly

and they all stick together.

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I am four weeks old now.
I like to swim with the other tadpoles.
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My gills have closed up.
Now I swim up to the surface
for each breath of air.
I am growing bigger and
bigger. We all feed on
tiny underwater plants.
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I am nine weeks old.
I am half tadpole

and half frog.
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My back legs are growing longer, and
now my front legs are growing, too.
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Here is a full-grown frog.
Look how small I am beside her.
Soon my tail will
disappear completely.
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Now I am more than one
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my time on land.
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Twelve weeks old Over one year old
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