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Frogs on lilypads, frogs in reeds, frogs that "sit like Buddha" and sing glorious songs on summer nights - a whole cacaphony of frogs is gathered into this endearing book. Kenneth Grahame's famous Mr. Toad is here...and Ted Hughes's Bull Frog "up to its belly in mud"...and Mr. Froggie is of course a-courtin' Missus Mousie. There are also pictures - paintings and drawings of silly frogs and serious ones - from Arthur Rackham's The Frogs and the Well, to a Japanese Hoji Frog, to a naturalist's delicate renderings of the frogs of Ranarum, to Beatrix Potter's Mr. Jeremy Fisher, in his macintosh.