How great to have The Frogs and Toads All Sang on hand in school or at home to share when reading the Frog and Toad stories.Ībout the Poems: Lobel proves himself an adept writer of light verse. It would also be a fine addition to a library collection in an early childhood classroom. The Frogs and Toads All Sang may be a slim volume-but a super book of poems to share with very young children. It includes images of some of the wonderful illustrations included in the book. Updated to Add: Here’s a video from HarperCollins in which Adrianne Lobel talks about The Frogs and Toads All Sang, her father, and her process for coloring her father’s drawings. The colored illustrations are a delight and certainly enhance this book of ten poems better than black and white sketches. In my opinion, Adrianne has done her father proud. She also notes the following: “I hope in some small measure I have done well by him.” Also, the exuberant vitality of the sketches is not representative of the kind of work he was doing for publication at the time.”Īdrianne says that she used her father’s preferred technique to color the sketches for this book. This was the first time he wrote about frogs and toads. The man contacted Adrianne in September 2008 to inform her of all the handmade books he had purchased that were created by her late father.Īdrianne writes about The Frogs and Toads All Sang: “I think that the poems and pictures are important in the grand arc of Arnold Lobel’s work. The book was bought in an estate auction by a man named Justin Schiller. I won’t go into detail here-but I will tell you that its text and drawings were handmade into a book by Arnold Lobel and given as a gift to Crosby and George Bonsall. In the introduction, Adrianne explains how this book came into being. The book, The Frogs and Toads All Sang, includes an introduction by Lobel’s daughter Adrianne. I stopped by the Banbury Cross Children’s Book Shop a few days ago and was excited to find out that a book of frog and toad poems that was written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel many years ago had recently been published. They are also outstanding books to read aloud. The books are great for independent reading for young children.
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They are wonderfully written tales of friendship full of humor and warmth.
Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad books certainly stand as the standard bearers for early readers.
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