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FROGS ARE GREEN!
For over 200 million years, ponds, marshes, grasslands, and rain forests have come alive with the calls of frogs. Yet these remarkable and colorful animals are declining at such a rapid rate that they are being called the Earth’s next dinosaurs. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, a third of the world’s amphibian species are threatened with extinction. To read more, click here!

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Teachers:
Calling all Frog Artists!
Susan and I are seeking kids’ frog art—lots of it! We hope to encourage kids and their teachers to learn about and get interested in frogs, toads, and other amphibians. If you’re an elementary school teacher, parent, or educator, please send us jpegs (2mb maximum size) of your students’ or kids’ drawings or paintings of frogs and we will display them in school group galleries on the FROGS ARE GREEN blog. We’d be happy to receive images of any art form—sculpture, drawing, painting, or watercolor. Read more>>

Announcing the winner of our first "Frogs Are Green" photo contest! Congratulations to Jocelyn Hyers, whose winning photograph of a green tree frog was taken in Pierce County, Georgia, USA. To see her photo click here!

Do you do fieldwork or amphibian research with a zoo, environmental organization, university, or government agency? If so, please consider writing a guest post for us about your work (@300 words). Email it to us at: info@frogsaregreen.com.

About Us

Susan Newman, an award-winning graphic & website designer, is designing for FROGS ARE GREEN to show how she feels about the Earth and to help spread the message that we need to save frogs and other amphibians.

A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Susan spent her early career working as a graphic designer and art director for various NYC publishers, including Macmillan and Penguin. In 1994, she established her own design firm, Susan Newman Design, Inc., www.susannewmandesign.com. Her clients range from individuals and small businesses to multinational corporations.

Susan has received numerous awards from organizations and publications including the Art Directors Club of New York, Desi, Graphis, the Print Regional Design Annual, The Society of Illustrators. In 2009, she won an award from Graphic Design USA for outstanding website design and 2 awards for poster design. Her work is represented in the permanent collection of the Library of Congress.

Susan has donated her design work to various organizations including the Hoboken 9/11 Memorial Committee, Jubilee Center Hoboken for Children, The Central Avenue Special Improvement District, www.jcheights.com, Actors Shakespeare Company at NJCU, www.ascnj.org,  Hudson Theatre Ensemble, www.hudsontheatreensemble.com and Chameleon Theatre Company Ltd, http://chameleontheatrecompanyltd.org.

Mary Jo Rhodes grew up in Oyster Bay, Long Island, where she loved to explore both the woods and the seashore.

After graduating from Denison University, she received her M.S. in library science from Columbia University, and worked for ten years in children’s book publishing. She now works for G&H SOHO, a small congenial book printer in Hoboken, New Jersey.

Mary Jo co-wrote Seahorses and Sea Dragons; Sea Turtles; Dolphins, Seals, and other Sea Mammals; Octopuses and Squid, and the other titles in the Undersea Encounters series, published by Scholastic Library Publishing. Her website www.maryjorhodes.com (designed by Susan) was selected as an ALA Great Site for Kids. In addition, Mary Jo writes the blog, Over Land and Under Sea, about undersea animals and related environmental issues.

For the past few years, Mary Jo has been reading with increasing alarm about the catastrophic amphibian decline. With FROGS ARE GREEN, she hopes to increase public awareness about this environmental crisis.