{"id":9552815423725,"title":"Pop-Up Pond","handle":"pop-up-pond","description":"\u003ch6\u003eComing March 9, 2027. Pre-order today!\u003c\/h6\u003e\n\u003ch1\u003ePop-Up Pond\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eExplore a Vernal Pool!\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER AUTHOR\/ILLUSTRATOR INFO BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/taunya-english\"\u003eTaunya English\u003c\/a\u003e \/ Illustrated by: \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/jennifer-ball-cordero\"\u003eJennifer Ball-Cordero\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER HEADING BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eIs it just a muddy puddle? Look closer!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003c!-- - - - - - - - ENTER DESCRIPTION BELOW - - - - - - - --\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA group of families join a nature guide on a springtime walk to carefully observe vernal pools; a safe, temporary nursery. 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Pop-Up Pond

Coming March 9, 2027. Pre-order today!

Pop-Up Pond

Explore a Vernal Pool!

By: Taunya English / Illustrated by: Jennifer Ball-Cordero

Is it just a muddy puddle? Look closer!

A group of families join a nature guide on a springtime walk to carefully observe vernal pools; a safe, temporary nursery. What secrets might these puddles hold?

Each spring, rain and melting snow transform the forest floor into a protected place where frogs, salamanders, and damselflies lay their eggs. The wetland nursery helps all sorts of water babies grow big.

This science-rich picture book introduces vernal pools, showing how temporary spring wetlands support frogs, salamanders, and insect life cycles.

Maximum quantity available reached.

Illustration of children in a forest with text about the forest watching over water babies.

Taunya English, author

Taunya English is a volunteer naturalist who loves sloshing through wetlands. On her nature adventures, sometimes she’s the leader. Lots of times she’s the learner. Before becoming a picture-book author, Taunya honed her story telling craft as a radio reporter, a career that teaches you to write for the ear. From the plink plink of rain to the ack ack of wood frogs, sound is her favorite nature souvenir. Taunya lives outside of Washington, DC.

Read more about Taunya.


Jennifer Ball-Cordero, illustrator

Jennifer Ball-Cordero is a children’s book illustrator/designer living and working in the New York City area who holds a BFA in visual communication design from Hartford Art School. She has spent more than fifteen years as an award-winning print and packaging designer. Jen has two mixed-race daughters, and she knows firsthand the challenges of finding every child represented in children’ books, so she jumped at the chance to illustrate this one.

Read more about Jennifer.

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Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-62354-727-1

Ages: 4–8
Page count: 32
8 x 10

Publication date: March 9, 2027