Frog and Toad Together

Frog and Toad are best friends, and each of the five short stories here takes one small trouble from their days together. Toad makes a list of everything he plans to do, then watches the wind carry it off. He plants a garden and has to wait for the seeds to grow.

In another story the two try to eat fewer cookies and discover that willpower is hard to come by. Elsewhere they climb a mountain and decide that they must be very brave. Toad also has a nightmare in which Frog keeps getting smaller.

This is the second book in Arnold Lobel's Frog and Toad series, first published by Harper & Row in 1972 as an I Can Read book. The words are simple, written for children who are learning to read.

Each story is short, gentle and funny, so a child can finish one in a single sitting. The book was named a Newbery Honor Book.