Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel

As soon as he gets out, everyone (including Frog) laughs at him. Toad decides to stay in the water until everybody leaves, but eventually he has to come out when he begins to shiver and sneeze. However, even though Frog explains the situation, the turtle, plus some lizards, a grass snake, a pair of dragonflies, and a field mouse all want to see Toad's bathing suit. A turtle comes by, prompting Toad to ask Frog to tell the turtle to leave. Frog agrees, and the two go for their swim. While Frog prefers to swim naked, Toad prefers to wear a bathing suit, but tells Frog not to look at him until he's in the water because he looks funny in his bathing suit. To make it up to Frog for the wild goose chase, not only does Toad sew his button back on his jacket, but sews on the other buttons they found as well and gives it to Frog the next day.įrog and Toad go down to the stream to go swimming. Eventually, Toad gets so angry over not finding his button that he runs home, and discovers his missing button had fallen off before the walk. Frog, a sparrow, and a raccoon each find buttons, but none of them are Toad's missing buttons (it was a big round thick white button with four holes). Retracing their steps, the friends return to the meadow, the woods, and the stream where they had walked. Frog tells a story detailing what Toad did for him throughout the chapter, but by the time Frog finishes, Toad is already fast asleep.Īfter Frog and Toad return from a long walk, Toad notices a button has fallen off his jacket.

However, by then, Frog feels better and allows Toad to get in bed, so he can tell him a story. Walking up and down the porch, standing on his head, pouring water over his head, and banging his head against the wall fail to get Toad anywhere, but the latter makes him quite unwell. Frog requests a story, but Toad has difficulty trying to come up with a story to tell his friend. One summer day, Toad notices that Frog is not feeling well and helps him to bed. Not wanting to be lonely until that time, Frog takes advantage of the fact that Toad has not changed his calendar since November and rips off the month pages until he reaches April, but rips off the April page as well and manages to get Toad out of bed to admire the beauty of spring. Since Toad has slept since November, he asks Frog to come back to wake him up when it is half past May. Frog eventually gets Toad up out of bed, and no sooner does he explain about the whole new year they will have together than Toad decides to go back to bed. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books each comprises five easy-to-read short stories.įrog rushes over to Toad's house one fine spring morning in April, but Toad is not eager to get up. Frog and Toad Are Friends is an American children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1970.

Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel