Library / Rejection Sensitivity
Read this when
Days with Frog and Toad (incl. 'Alone')
Your friend said 'I want to be alone' and you packed a picnic and fell in a river. Toad, we see you. 🐸
Who it's for
In 'Alone', Toad reads Frog's note and immediately spirals: Frog must be sad, or no longer want him as a friend.
Feelings it meets
What it is
Arnold Lobel's 1979 Days with Frog and Toad is the fourth and final Frog and Toad book, an I Can Read collection of five short stories about two close friends: 'Tomorrow', 'The Kite', 'Shivers', 'The Hat' and 'Alone'. In 'Alone', Frog goes off by himself, and Toad worries that something must be wrong and anxiously sets out to find him.
Where to find it
In print (I Can Read series, HarperCollins) and in libraries; audio editions exist. An Apple TV+ animated series (2023) adapts the characters.
Before you start
Age: All ages
Everywhere I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Chapter 10
