However, based on content it is also an appropriate book to read to preschoolers. Based on difficulty level, this book is appropriate for grades k-3. Instead, they appear to be more like sketched lines, which makes the illustrations look softer and more realistic.įrog and Toad Are Friends is part of the Frog and Toad series by Arnold Lobel. Lastly, there are very few solid lines in the illustrations. This makes the separation from the words and the illustrations not as obvious. Some of the illustrations are framed with a solid line but others just fade into the white space on the page they don’t have a definitive border. This makes the characters really stand out and it makes the reader’s eye go straight to the characters on the page. In some of the illustrations, the characters are in color and the background is in black and white. This makes the book appear very earthy and it makes the reader look at Frog and Toad as a part of nature and wildlife instead of more human-like animals. The colors in this book almost entirely consist of different shades of green and brown.

Lobel uses watercolors in order to create his illustrations. The theme of this story is that small things matter and friends should stick by each other.įrog and Toad Are Friends is illustrated by the author, Arnold Lobel. This made Toad very happy and he loved the letter. Frog also helped toad when he was embarrassed of his swim suit and when Toad was sad because he never gets any mail, Frog wrote Toad a letter and gave it to the snail to deliver. When Toad felt guilty because the button was at his house all along, he sewed a special jacket for Frog with all of the buttons that they found. When Toad lost a button, frog helped him search all over the meadow. They would do just about anything for each other. This is a book about two friends that greatly care for each other. In fact, he tried so hard that he made himself sick and since Frog was feeling better, he got out of bed so Toad could get in.

Toad tried everything he could think of to come up with a story but it didn’t work. One day, Frog was not feeling well and he asked Toad for a story. However, Frog gets Toad out of bed and they start the new year together. However, Toad is not as ready to wake up and embrace spring as Frog is. Frog and Toad are best friends and they do everything together.

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