Includes Frog and Toad are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, and Frog and Toad All Year Frog and Toad are 'of the same sex, and they love each other',' and that the series 'really was the beginning of him coming out'. Lobel himself wrote, 'Frog and Toad are really two aspects of myself.' In The New Yorker, his daughter Adrianne Lobel suggested 'that there’s another dimension to the series’s sustained popularity. His books about animal friends, such as Frog and Toad, were drawn from these experiences. He used his animal drawings as a way of coping with the social insecurity of his return and to make friends. When Lobel was sick and out of school for much of second grade, he kept himself busy by drawing. Some of their adventures include attempting to fly a kite, cleaning Toad's dirty house, and finding out different reasons for isolation.įrog is taller with a green shade, and is more cheery and relaxed than Toad Toad is shorter and stout with a brown shade, and while just as caring and friendly as Frog, is also the more serious and uptight of the duo.

The situations in which they find themselves are a cross between the human and animal worlds.

Frog and Toad is a series of easy-reader children's books, written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel.Įach book contains five simple, often humorous, sometimes poignant, short stories chronicling the exploits of an anthropomorphic frog and toad, named Frog and Toad respectively.

Days with frog and toad by arnold lobel