Where’s the scene in which Toad stumbles across nude selfies on Frog’s computer, and Frog lies and says he just wanted a few genital pics to use as autoerotic stimuli during his upcoming trip to Italy. Where’s the scene in which Toad tells Frog he hates Frog’s Old Navy khaki pants from Old Navy, even though the pants are perfectly fine, and anyway, these two hardly know each other….it’s only their second date…and what kind of creature says something so gratuitously nasty to another creature on a second date? What kind, indeed? Where’s the scene in which Frog tells Toad that he’d like to experiment with a “polyamorous” lifestyle and that he, Toad, ought simply to accept this sad news and keep the home fire burning? Indeed, readers of Frog and Toad should all get to see some of the behind-the-scenes tension that surely animates the domestic life of these two seemingly cheery amphibians. I think even children should get a dose of reality in their fiction. Thank you for ruining my shot at happiness. And here I am hopping around, imagining that the love between Frog and Toad is some kind of norm between men, and that anything less perfect and harmonious would be just… sad.Īnd so: thanks, Lobel, for tainting my thoughts and setting me up for permanent failure. I’ve dated an array of guys, and not one has been half as selfless and gentle as Frog. Have you ever wondered why so many gay men are perpetually single? Has it never occurred to anyone that the reason we’re romantically frustrated is because we’ve been poisoned by the unrealistic expectations we developed while reading Frog and Toad? These creatures cook for each other, make special gifts, tell each other stories, act as bedside nurses, write kind letters to each other, and do a million other small, nice, thoughtful things.

(Well, almost everyone.) And yes, on one level, the bond between Frog and Toad is touching and inspiring. Urn:oclc:36823242 Scandate 20100121045206 Scanner applauds Arnold Lobel’s Frog and Toad books for covertly introducing children to the idea of long-term gay love. OL1973422W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 75.00 Pages 76 Ppi 400 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0590061984 Urn:lcp:frogtoadtogether00lobe:epub:986f3705-278d-4335-82b3-481f9d17eb69 Extramarc Princeton University Library Foldoutcount 0 Identifier frogtoadtogether00lobe Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5s760p99 Isbn 9780060239596ħ3183163 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition

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