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 and illustrated close to a hundred books, but Frog and Toad made him immortal — a Caldecott Medalist (Fables) whose gentle amphibian friendship is now read as some of the wisest writing about love in any genre.
Lobel invented Frog and Toad while summering in Vermont, watching his children catch frogs; he later said the two characters were both sides of himself, worrier and comforter, in permanent conversation.
Also by this author: Frog and Toad Together · Owl at Home · Fables
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