By Arnold Lobel
All four of the beloved Frog and Toad books in one box — quiet, kind little stories about two friends who are nothing alike and love each other completely.
Frog is easygoing and steady; Toad is grumpy, anxious, and slow to get out of bed. Across four small books they wait for spring, bake cookies they can't stop eating, fly a kite that won't fly, and worry about each other when they're apart. Every chapter is a whole little story, five or six pages long, that starts and ends before bedtime runs out.
The sentences are short and plain, but the feelings underneath are real and warm, so a child gets the satisfaction of an actual story without the page ever feeling crowded. Because each chapter is its own tiny tale, a child can read one and stop, or read three, without ever losing the thread. This box has carried families for fifty years for a reason — the first book won a Caldecott Honor and the second a Newbery Honor, and children still ask for one more.