Your First Pet Frog: The White's Tree Frog

• An article for children published in the May/June 2018 edition of the online magazine Kid's Imagination Train (Vol. 6, Issue 3).  Photo by Kevin Risk.

This is an article for children in grades 4-6 with information about caring for one of the more popular pet tree frogs, the White's Tree Frog.

Photo of our pet White's Tree Frog, Sydney, by Kevin Risk

Jason and Jake

• A short story for children published February 2nd, 2014 on the Alfie Dog Limited (Fiction) website.  Illustration by Kevin Risk.  No longer available for download on Alfie Dog Ltd.

Sam finds a toad and names it Jake before donating it as a class pet.  Through Jake, the class learns about toads in the wild, and that Jake has a surprise in store for all of them!

Illustration of Jake by Kevin Risk

Animal Actors

• An article for children published in the 2011 Winter edition of R.E.A.L.: The Canadian Kids’ Magazine.  Photo from Season 1 (1995) of Once Upon a Hamster.
  

This is an article about Animal Wranglers and their work with animals, including the animal actors from Tales from the Riverbank, Hammy Hamster and Once Upon a Hamster.

GP, Martha and Hammy from Season 1 of "Once Upon a Hamster"