And then, a year later, the first Frog and Toad book came out.īut what's interesting about this book is that it serves to prove me wrong and that frogs and toads were very much already in his mind almost 10 years earlier and that he did know the difference, and I think he was just humoring me.īLOCK: These line drawings that your father did to accompany these rhyming stories, they're different from the Frog and Toad books that we know, if we've read them to our children.
We used to rent houses, and I came in with a toad in my hand, and he said, what a nice frog you have there. I gave him this whole lecture when I was in Vermont one summer. LOBEL: And now, I realize he was just humoring me. LOBEL: I have always credited myself with the person who instructed my father as to the difference between frogs and toads. I also had no memory of him making these books.īLOCK: How did your father start writing about and drawing frogs and toads in the first place?
And when I saw them, I could not believe how complete they were. These books were poems about frogs and toads. LOBEL: In a box, they found these three beautifully bound pamphlets that my father had handwritten and illustrated with little pencil, thumbnail sketches. Now, his daughter, an artist and set designer, has added color and published them.Īdrianne Lobel says her father's drawings were discovered last year at an estate auction. Arnold Lobel wrote and drew them and gave them as gifts to friends. The poems and black-and-white line drawings pre-date the Frog and Toad series. We only squirm and giggle.īLOCK: Adrianne Lobel is the author's daughter, and she's behind this new book. We go to class each day, said one, and all we do is wiggle. Underneath the lily pads, where the mud is cool, many little pollywogs swim their way to school. ADRIANNE LOBEL: (Reading) Pollywog's School. Frog and Toad go sledding, they look for spring, eat chocolate ice cream cones and are completely devoted to each other in a way only well-dressed amphibians can be.Īrnold Lobel died in 1987, but now there's a new addition to the world of Frog and Toad, a collection of 10 rhyming stories called "The Frogs and Toads All Sang." They're the creation of the late writer and illustrator Arnold Lobel. If you're very young, your secret pleasure may come from two friends in children's books, Frog and Toad.
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