Author: Eve Bunting
Date: 2013-09-02 04:00:00+00:00
Keywords: Childrens
Description: Welcome to Frog and his world. He enjoys nothing better than spending time floating on his pond or visiting with his friends. He appreciates the simpler things in life and would prefer that things stay just the way they are nice and peaceful. From acclaimed children s writer Eve Bunting comes a beginning reader series featuring the delightful Frog and his friends Rabbit, Possum, Raccoon, and Squirrel. In Frog Saves the Day Frog and his friends mistakenly think a nearby train is a ferocious dragon and later Frog rescues a friend s child from danger.
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press

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Frog

F and
riends

Frog Saves the Day

Written by Eve Bunting

Illustrated by Josée Masse

To Shane, my favorite grandson

— Eve

For my lovely aunt Céline

— Josée

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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (case) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 (pbk) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data • Bunting, Eve, 1928- • Frog and friends : Frog saves the day / written by Eve Bunting; • il ustrated by Josée Masse. • pages cm • Summary: “A beginning reader book containing two stories featuring Frog and his friends, where the friends mistake a train for a terrible dragon and Frog rescues a baby possum after it fal s into a river”—

Provided by publisher. • ISBN 978-1-58536-809-9 (hard cover) — ISBN 978-1-58536-810-5 (paper back) • [1. Frogs—Fiction. 2. Animals—Fiction. 3. Friendship—Fiction.] I. Masse, Josée, il ustrator. II.

Title. III. Title: Frog saves the day. • PZ7.B91527Fse 2013 • [E—dc23 • 2013004091

Table of Contents

Frog and the Green Dragon . . . . . 1

Frog and the Big River Rescue . . 19

Frog and the

Green Dragon

1

One night Raccoon came to Frog.

“I do not sleep well,” she told him.

“Every night a big, big, big noise wakens me.”

“That is terrible,” Frog said. “What is it?”

“I do not know,” Raccoon said. “I hide under the tree leaves. I put my paws over my ears. Whatever it is, it comes every night. It has a roar like thunder. But it isn’t thunder.”

2

“Oh my!” Frog croaked. “Is it close to us?”

“No. It is far away,” Raccoon whispered.

“But I am afraid it will come closer. I think it is something bad.”

“Oh my!” Frog said again. He closed his eyes, thinking.

3

At last he said, “You and I and our friends will go together and find out what it is. It is better to face up to what frightens you.”

4

That night they set out, Frog, Raccoon, Possum, Squirrel, Chameleon, Rabbit, and little Jumping Mouse.

“I do not hear any roar like thunder,”

Possum said.

5

“You will,” Raccoon told her. “It will make your fur stand on end.”

They walked farther.

6

“Ooo! I hear it,” little Jumping Mouse said.

Raaaaaaaaaaa-cla cla cla!

They hid themselves in the long grass.

Raccoon held Frog’s hand. “I am so scared,” she whispered.

7

The thunder roar was louder.

Raaaaaaaaaaaa-cla cla cla!

“My fur is standing on end,” Possum moaned.

8

The big bad thing came around a bend.

It had one giant shining eye.

It had no legs.

It had a long, stringy body.

9

“Like a snake. Only bigger,” Chameleon whispered. “Much, much bigger.”

“Look! It leaves a silver track,” Rabbit whispered. “Like a snail track, only bigger.

Much, much bigger.”

10

“I am sorry to tell you,” Frog said. “I think it is a big green dragon.”

Possum screamed, “Oh no! I can see inside it.”

11

“Look at all the people it has eaten,”

Squirrel squeaked. “I can see them.”

They were shocked!

Rabbit shuddered. “That is gross!”

12

“I am glad no one can see inside me,”

Chameleon said. “Today I ate pillbugs, beetles, white worms, and roaches. Inside of me would not be pretty!”

13

“I am glad Mrs. Brown cannot see inside me,” Squirrel said. “Today I dug up all her tulip bulbs. And ate them.”

Little Jumping Mouse gasped, “Mrs.

Brown will be very angry!”

14

“What can we do, Frog?” Rabbit asked.

“This is a terrible dragon.”

Frog fanned himself with an oak leaf.

“I am glad we came and saw,” he said.

“Now we know. This dragon only eats people.

He is not looking for us. We are safe.”

15

Raccoon closed her eyes. “Thank goodness,” she whispered.

They high-fived each other.

16

“Oh, but it is sad for people,” little Jumping Mouse said. “How can we help them, Frog?”

“We will sing a sad song for them,”

Frog said. “That is all we can do.”

They joined paws and claws and hands and sang a very sad song.

17

It was so sad that they all cried.

Then they felt better and went back home.

18

Frog and the

Big River Rescue

Frog and his friends liked to picnic at Big River.

19

There was good green grass and lots of acorns. Sometimes there were small sweet strawberries and always juicy, fruity bugs.

It was a sunny afternoon.

“Picnic time!” Frog said.

20

Frog, Squirrel, Chameleon, Possum with her babies, Raccoon, Rabbit, and little Jumping Mouse jumped, hopped, ran, and scampered down to Big River.

First they ate.

“Mmm, strawberries!” little Jumping Mouse said.

“Great bugs!” Chameleon said.

21

He and Frog had a game to see which one of them had the longest tongue.

Chameleon won.

22

Rabbit and Possum talked about names for babies.

“I like One, Two, Three, Four, Five for mine,” Possum said.

Rabbit said, “I just call all of mine

‘Bunny.’ I ran out of names a long time ago.

I have had a lot of babies.”

The little possums played hide-and-seek.

They ran races on the grass beside the river.

“Do not go too close to the water,”

Possum called to them.

23

24

Just then one little possum slipped and fell in the river.

“Help! Help!” he screamed.

The fast water was carrying him away.

25

Possum leaped up. “I’m coming, Baby Five!” she called.

Frog held her back. “Do not go in the river,” he cried. “You will not make it. I will go.”

26

Frog jumped quickly into the river.

The water rushed around him.

It was not like swimming in his pond.

He swam his fastest toward little Possum Five.

27

He kicked with his long back legs.

Faster, faster.

It was hard work. Would he be in time?

28

At last Frog reached the little one.

“Hold on to me,” he called. “Get on my back!”

Little Possum Five crawled onto Frog’s back.

29

“Hold tight!” Frog shouted.

Frog huffed and puffed. Keep going, he told himself. Do not give up!

30

Here was the riverbank. Thank goodness!

Paws reached out to him. All kinds of paws. They scooped little Possum Five off his back.

31

They dragged them both on to the grass. Frog and little Possum Five had swallowed a lot of water.

32

Raccoon turned Frog on his stomach.

She pumped his back.

“Burp!” he burbled. “Burp!”

Water sloshed out.

33

Possum pressed on the little possum’s back till he screamed, “Stop, Mama! You are hurting me.”

34

“How can I thank you, Frog?” Possum asked. “You were so brave. You are a true hero.”

His friends clapped. “You are! You are!”

“It was nothing,” Frog told them.

35

“But it is bad to swim after you eat,”

Raccoon told Frog. “Remember that next time a little possum falls in.”

“I will,” Frog said.

36

Little Possum Five tugged at Frog’s leg.

“That was fun,” he said. “Can we do it again?”

“Fun?” Frog croaked. “Do it again?”

“My turn! My turn!” little Possum Three shouted.

“Me! Me! Me!” They were all tugging.

Frog sighed. “I need a nap!” he said.

37

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Document Outline

- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Frog and the Green Dragon
- Frog and the Big River Rescue

Table of Contents

- Cover
- Table of Contents
- Frog and the Green Dragon
- Frog and the Big River Rescue