{"id":667,"date":"2009-07-21T22:54:14","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T02:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=667"},"modified":"2009-07-21T22:54:14","modified_gmt":"2009-07-22T02:54:14","slug":"review-of-the-frogs-and-toads-all-sang-by-arnold-lobel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Review of The Frogs and Toads All Sang, by Arnold Lobel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/frogs_and_toads_all_sang.jpg\" alt=\"frogs_and_toads_all_sang\" title=\"frogs_and_toads_all_sang\" width=\"205\" height=\"208\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-668\" \/><em>The Frogs and Toads All Sang<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Arnold Lobel<\/p>\n<p>color by Adrianne Lobel<\/p>\n<p>HarperCollins, 2009.  29 pages.<\/p>\n<p>This book is based on a discovered treasure &#8212; a little handmade book that Arnold Lobel had given to Crosby Bonsall as a Christmas gift long ago.  The book was black and white, so for this delightful picture book version, his own daughter filled in the drawings with color.<\/p>\n<p>The frogs and toads in this book were created before <em>The<\/em> famous and beloved <em>Frog and Toad.<\/em>  The book consists of ten short, sweet, and silly poems, each including frogs, toads, or polliwogs.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing profound or tremendously significant here.  But somehow, the poems beg to be read aloud.  And when you finish reading the book, I am quite sure you will be smiling.  <\/p>\n<p>Very nice.  And a lovely discovered legacy from a much-beloved author.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0061800228\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\">Sonderbooks<\/a> at: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/frogs_and_toads_all_sang.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Picture_Books\/frogs_and_toads_all_sang.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Frogs and Toads All Sang by Arnold Lobel color by Adrianne Lobel HarperCollins, 2009. 29 pages. This book is based on a discovered treasure &#8212; a little handmade book that Arnold Lobel had given to Crosby Bonsall as a Christmas gift long ago. The book was black and white, so for this delightful picture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,15,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-characters","category-picture-book-review","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}