I don't want to be a frog by Dev Petty illustrated by Mike Boldt

"I want to be a cat."

"You can't be a cat"

"Why not?"

"Because you're a frog."

"I don't like being a frog. It's too wet."

"Well, you can't be a cat."

And so it all begins. Can frog be a rabbit? Can frog be a pig? Can frog be an owl? Then frog meets the Big Bad Wolf. He loves to eat cats, rabbits, pigs, owls and even badgers. BUT ... there is one animal he never eats!

This book is perfect for young readers who enjoy books by Mo Willems (Elephant and Piggie; and the Pigeon books).

Here is a bookshop blurb: Frog wants to be anything but a slimy, wet frog. A cat, perhaps. Or a rabbit. An owl? But when a hungry wolf arrives--a wolf who HATES eating frogs--our hero decides that being himself isn't so bad after all. In this very silly story with a sly message, told in hilarious dialogue between a feisty young frog and his heard-it-all-before father, young readers will identify with little Frog's desire to be something different, while laughing along at his stubborn yet endearing schemes to prove himself right.

There are three more books in the series - I Don't Want to Be Big: There's Nothing to Do!: and I Don't Want to Go to Sleep.

Here are other books illustrated by Mike Boldt. Mike Boldt comes from Alberta, Canada.  Here is the website for Dev Petty.