Bloomsbury, 2025 • 40pp

Frog: The Story of Life on Earth

**WINNER SLA Readers’ Choice Award 2026**
**WINNER UKLA Information Book Award 2026**
*BBC Wildlife Magazine: Best Wildlife Books of 2025*
*Shortlisted 2026 Peters Children’s Book of the Year Award*
*Shortlisted 2025 Children’s Wainwright Prize for Non-Fiction*

If frogs come from eggs,
and eggs come from frogs,
where did the first frog come from?

This is the incredible story of how frogs, and all life on Earth, came to be. To find out, we go all the way back to the very beginning. Before frogs, dinosaurs, planet Earth – before even the stars existed . . . back 13.7 billion years to the moment just before the universe began. And from there, through Isabel Thomas’s beautifully lyrical text and Daniel Egnéus’s breathtaking illustrations, we are transported through time to the evolution of the very first frogs.

The story of frog is an epic; an adventure in space and time. It’s a story still being told, in every garden, every pond and every corner of our extraordinary planet.

 

 

 

“Evolution is surely the most amazing story of all, but among the hardest to tell well. And to engage five and six- year-olds with the complex mechanics of natural selection is harder still. Enter science writer Isabel Thomas. Inspired by a question her son asked – “If frogs come from eggs, and eggs come from frogs, where did the first frog come from?” – she has produced a stunning picture book that is nothing less than the story of everything.

Each spread features dreamily immersive artwork by Daniel Egnéus and just three or four lines of text. Yet we are effortlessly whisked from the big bang to the emergence of living things and the evolution of animals until, finally, frogs leap onto the page. Readers are left with the thought that they, too, are part of the never-ending evolution story. Bound to become a firm favourite in primary school classrooms.” – BBC Wildlife Magazine, Best Nature Book of 2025