ALA Booklist (Mon Mar 01 00:00:00 CST 1993)

One morning Wilma woke up green, and much to her surprise / She sat up on her bed and croaked and started eating flies. So begins this rhythmic, rollicking story about the chaos that is caused at school by a green student with a distinct hop in her step and a yen for that tasty little fly atop her teacher's nose. Full of goggle-eyed characters bouncing off the walls, the illustrations are as silly and outrageous as the story. Fast, funny, and froggy, Green Wilma is guaranteed to be a hit with the story hour silly set. (Reviewed Mar. 1, 1993)

Horn Book (Thu Apr 01 00:00:00 CST 1993)

Wilma wakes up one morning and finds herself to be green and very froglike. She relishes the role as she hops about, catching flies with her long tongue. The offbeat humor in the artwork adds to the exaggerated tone of the story in rhyme.

School Library Journal

PreS-Gr 2-- When little Wilma awakens one morning, she discovers that she has turned green and developed a fondness for eating flies. Her horrified parents don't know how to deal with her, so she hops to school. There she demonstrates her dodgeball skills, but gets in trouble after flicking her tongue on the teacher's nose and chasing flies through the lunchroom. Of course the adventure turns out to be a dream--but the dreamer, as it turns out, is a frog, not a girl. Arnold's breezy humor shines through in the illustrations, especially in his goggle-eyed people who must be the stuff of amphibian nightmares. The rhymed narration is adequate, but the amusing tale's success derives from the unexpected twist and the slapstick comedy embodied in the pictures. --Kathy Piehl, Mankato State University, MN