Hoptoad

By Jane Yolen

Book Overview

A boy, his dad, and his dog are out for a drive on a beautiful sunny day. Unfortunately, a hapless toad is trying to make its way across the very same road. Talk about bad timing. Is there any hope of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0152163522
• ISBN13: 9780152163525
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: Harcourt Childrens Books
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.5" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 3 years and under

Customer Reviews

A Toad-ally Terrific Tale!?

Award-winning author Jane Yolen offers few words (43 total) but plenty of suspense. Hoptoad and his traveling buddies, a skinny lizard and a deceptively speedy tortoise, must scamper across a wide highway to avoid a mammoth red pickup. ("Truck coming. Heavy load. Toad hop. Toad hop!") Karen Lee Schmidt's watercolors loom larger-than-life: reptile scales you can almost touch, dusty desert scenes that almost parch your throat. Ever wonder what the world looks like from a toad's bulging eyes? In a two-page spread you can almost feel Hoptoad's fear as humongous headlights bear down on his quivering body frozen mid-road. Will he make it across? Or will he be flattened into a toad tortilla? Get the book to find out!