Arnold Lobel
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Arnold Stark Lobel (May 22, 1933 – December 4, 1987) was an American author of children's books, including the Frog and Toad series and Mouse Soup. He wrote and illustrated these picture books as well as Fables, a 1981 Caldecott Medal winner for best-illustrated U.S. picture book. Lobel also illustrated books by other writers, including Sam the Minuteman by Nathaniel Benchley published in 1969.
Books
Odd owls and stout pigs
Presents a linked collection of brief rhymes featuring owls and pigs.
The Frogs and Toads All Sang
Presents a linked collection of ten short stories in rhyme featuring frogs, toads, and polliwogs.
The great blueness and other predicaments
When a wizard discovered that each color he invented for the colorless world had a different emotional effect on people, he luckily had an accident which resulted in red apples, green leaves, and yellow bananas.
Frog and Toad (Frog and Toad All Year / Frog and Toad Are Friends / Frog and Toad Together)
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Frog and Toad (Days with Frog and Toad / Frog and Toad All Year / Frog and Toad Are Friends / Frog and Toad Together)
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Adventure Stories That Will Thrill You
Frog and Toad Together
Frog and Toad Together is an American fantasy adventure children's picture book, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel and published by Harper & Row in 1972. It is the second book in the Frog and Toad series. Like each of the other four books in the series, it contains five easy-to-read short stories. It was a Newbery Honor Book, or runner-up for the American Library Association Newbery Medal, which recognizes the year's "most distinguished contribution to American literature for children".
Small Pig
Because the farmer's wife insists on cleaning his mud puddle, a little pig runs away to the city where he becomes permanently stuck in what he thought was a mud puddle.
Ming Lo Moves the Mountain
A wise man tells Ming Lo how to move the mountain away from his house.
Giant John
This is a book that could be paired with Jack and the Beanstalk stories. John and his mother are poor giants and he goes out in search of a job to earn money so that they can eat. He encounters a king, queen and their castle, and does monumental tasks that his size allows him to do. In the end he returns to his mother and they eat well.
The Random House Book of Mother Goose
An illustrated collection of Mother Goose nursery rhymes, including well-known ones such as "Bah, Bah, Black Sheep" and "Little Boy Blue" and less familiar ones such as "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester" and "When clouds appear like rocks and towers."
Grasshopper on the Road
The story of a grasshopper's journey down a road broken into six short stories: The Club A New House The Sweeper The Voyage Always At Evening Easy to read.
Mouse Soup
A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.
Days With Frog and Toad
Good friends like Frog and Toad enjoy spending their days together. They fly kites, celebrate Toad's birthday, and share the shivers when one of them tells a scary story. Here are five funny stories that celebrate friendship all day, every day.
On Market Street
A child buys presents from A to Z in the shops along Market Street.
Just Right Mother Goose (Just Right for 3's and 4's)
An illustrated collection of fifty nursery rhymes, including "Peter Piper," "She Sells Sea Shells," "Hector Protector," and "Three Blind Mice."
The turnaround wind
The reader turns the book upside down to see what happens when a fierce wind blows through a country town one afternoon, affecting many different people and animals out enjoying the summer air.
Hildilid's Night
An old lady who hates everything about night tries all sorts of methods to chase it away.