"First published in 1970, Frog and Toad Are Friends was the first of the four beloved Frog and Toad books. This special edition contains all of the original stories--from the story about going swimming, to finding lost buttons! ... includes seven pages of rarely seen bonus material, including archival photographs, sketches, pages from the original book dummy, the manuscript of the first story "Spring" (written in Lobel's cursive on lined notebook...

Illustrates the well-known American folk song about the courtship and marriage of the frog and the mouse.

Frogs rise on their lily pads, float through the air, and explore the nearby houses while their inhabitants sleep.

Frog and Toad spend their days together, but find sometimes it's nice to be alone.

When his friend, the tadpole, becomes a frog and leaves the pond to explore the world, the little fish decides that maybe he doesn't have to remain in the pond either. A fable about a fish who learns from a frog how to be happy just being himself.

"This is the turtle that slid into the pond and ate the snake that dropped from a branch and swallowed the fish that swam after the frog ... that climed out of the water." This infectious cumulative tale will soon have the young readers jumping and chanting with joy. Jump, frog, jump!

Frog and his friends are alarmed by a strange object that appears on his pond, share a thoughtful--if scratchy--gift, and meet a hippopotamus that has run away from the zoo.

Stink has been in the Polliwog swim class for what seems like frog-ever, and still can't bear to put his face in the water. Then, one day, Stink has a close encounter with a freaky mutant frog. All of a sudden, his froggy senses are tingling!

Froggy's marching band practices for their debut at the Apple Blossom Parade, hoping to win the big prize.

Froggy and his father search the house for the mislaid items they will need on their bike trip.