Frog and Toad are Friends

Frog and Toad are Friends
By Arnold Lobelia
Caldecott Honor


This is a book about the characters Toad and Frog.  This book consists of five short stories in which Frog and Toad interact in heir friendship.  In the first story Frog goes to Toads home to tell him that Spring has arrived and that they should go out and enjoy all the nice things of spring.  Toad wants to sleep more so ultimately he tells Frog to wake him up in the middle of May.  Frog goes and tears that pages off the calendar until he gets to May and wakes Toad up. They go out and have fun.  In the second, Frog is not feeling well so he asks Toad to tell him a story and Toad tries to but cannot think of one so he walks up and down in the porch, stands on his head, pours water on his head, and finally bangs his head on the wall to try to think of a story. Frog feels better now and Toad now feels bad.  Toad asks Frog to tell him a story now so Front tells him the story of of what Toad did.  In the third story Frog and Toad went for a walk and Toad lost one of his jacket buttons.  They go back to look for it and they find many buttons but no his. Very upset he goes home and finds his button on the floor.  In the the fourth story they go swimming but toad is worried that Frog will see his bathing suit. Many animals come because they want to see him in his bathing suit. Finally he gets out and walks away.  In the last story Toad sits on the front porch waiting to see the mail come.  He is sad because he never gets mail so Frog goes home and writes Toad a letter and gives to a snail to deliver it. It takes a while but the letter finally gets there and Toad is very happy.

I would use this book in many class because the stories are very creative and the illustrations are very nicely done.  I would have the students read this book in pair so they could read to each other. This book may be used from Kindergarten through 3rd grade.