Frog and Toad All Year
1976
- accelerated reader
- amistad
- animals
- children's fiction
- children's stories
- classics
- comedy & humor
- estaciones del año
- ficción juvenil
- fiction
The story
Frog and Toad All Year is an American picture book written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published by Harper & Row in 1976. It is the third book in the Frog and Toad series, whose four books completed by Lobel comprise five easy-to-read short stories each. ---------- Also contained in: [The Frog and Toad Treasury](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL1973505W)
What it’s like
Soft pencil-and-watercolor pictures of two round, friendly animals in simple, uncluttered settings, with plenty of white space on the page and pale greens, browns and muted blues carrying through each season. The prose is spare and conversational, built from short sentences and repeated gentle exchanges that read aloud with a quiet, deadpan rhythm. The vibe is warm, unhurried and wryly funny, the kind of thing that suits a slow Saturday morning, a bedtime read for a small child, or a lazy afternoon when you want something that asks for nothing. Each short story moves at its own easy pace through the seasons, from spring hopes to winter stillness, and the emotional arc is simply two good friends being patient, honest and kind with one another. Entirely gentle, with no violence, fear or peril beyond small everyday worries. Made for young readers, for parents reading together, and for adults who want comfort, humour and a little tenderness in a few minutes.
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