Frog and Toad Are Friends
A teacher’s look at why this book belongs in the Read-to-Me, Read-by-Me stage.
Why it fits Read-to-Me, Read-by-Me (for the kindergarten-ready set, between being read to and reading alone)
Five small stories of the gentlest friendship in literature. Short chapters give new readers the pride of 'reading a chapter book.' The humor is sly enough that adults never tire of helping.
What makes it special
Lobel wrote the gentlest philosophy in American letters: patience, worry, loyalty, and the lost button. His mossy green-and-brown watercolors are as unhurried as the friendship itself. Five small chapters mean five real 'I read a chapter' victories — confidence built in perfectly-sized increments.
From the publisher
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. It inaugurated the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by…
About Arnold Lobel
Arnold Lobel (1933–1987) wrote 28 books for children and illustrated more than 70, among them the Frog and Toad books. He won the 1981 Caldecott Medal for Fables, a 1971 Caldecott Honor for Frog and Toad Are Friends, and a 1973 Newbery Honor for Frog and Toad Together.
Lobel said of his best-known pair, "Frog and Toad are really two aspects of myself."
Also by this author: Frog and Toad Together · Owl at Home · Fables
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