The Frog and Toad Collection Box Set (I Can Read Book 2)

Customer Reviews

• Great stories!  May 13, 2008 (52 of 54 found this helpful)

  The collection consists of 3 books - Frog and Toad All Year, Frog and Toad Are Friends, and Frog and Toad Together. My 8 year old nephew who has reading difficulties loves these books. He now shows an interest in reading. Please keep up with the stories Mr. Lobel!

• Perfect children's fiction  Jan 7, 2006 (44 of 45 found this helpful)

  The Frog and Toad series are the perfect classic for young children who are just old enough to read.
  
  What makes the work so charming is that one can buy a brand new copy of it, and immediately it is like a pair of comfortable old shoes or a warm, over-worn sweater. Frog and Toad are friends, the kind of homey, down-to-earth friendship we all depend on. They are not flashy, bright, or cartoony. The pictures are a dull and easy brown and green, but capture cute variations in emotion between these two characters. They fit the ethos of the book: comfortable, casual, understated, and something you immediately want more of.
  
  They capture the heroism and fears of a five year old. They are right on the mark for a young person who is just beginning to be able to comfort someone who is lonely or do battle with an overwhelming craving for cookies. Frog and Toad are two simple, helpless creatures who help one another through things that seem big to a child and unnoticeable to an adult. They worry about the things a five year old worries about. Parent readers will find themselves wanting to help Frog and Toad get by the way we help our own five-year-olds.
  
  Lobel has noticed exactly what a child notices. He's gotten it just right.

• great on two levels--for beginning readers and for toddlers  Nov 27, 2006 (27 of 29 found this helpful)

  For your beginning readers, these heartwarming stories of a child-like friendship between Frog and Toad are excellent, a fine complement to the Little Bear series, for example.
  
  For the toddler being read to, these books also provide great delight. This daddy loves to read Toad's voice as a deep, slightly daft Englishman, while Frog's voice is, naturally, an outrageous French one. (It works--try it!) The stories are charming, affirm praiseworthy values (above all friendship), and are short enough to gauge your evening ritual precisely.
  
  Highly recommended.

• Get the Broadway Musical CD  Dec 12, 2005 (25 of 27 found this helpful)

  Frog and Toad are classic, and WONDERFUL. If you love Frog and Toad, you need to know Arnold Lobel's daughter collaborated to create a Broadway musical based on these books, and the CD with the songs from the musical ("A Year With Frog and Toad") is a MUST have for every child. We have given so many copies as gifts I've lost count, and everyone (adult and child alike) LOVES the CD. It has all the charm and humor of the books, and it brings the characters to life in a lovely and loveable way. Get the CD along with the Frog and Toad books -- the PERFECT gift package for any child age 1 to 8.

• Frog Rules, or should that be toad?  Mar 3, 2006 (10 of 10 found this helpful)

  This is a first class collection of stories for children to read, or be read to. There is a wry, understated humour that delights both child and parent.