Tadpole's Promise
by:
Tony Ross (author)
Jeanne Willis (author)
The award-winning, unpredictable picture book from this best-selling author/artist team is now available for the first time in paperback. Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the...
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The award-winning, unpredictable picture book from this best-selling author/artist team is now available for the first time in paperback. Tadpole loves his rainbow friend, the caterpillar, and she tells him she loves everything about him. "Promise that you will never change," she says. But as the seasons pass and he matures, his legs grow, and then his arms—and what happens to his beautiful rainbow friend? As he sits on his lily pad, digesting a butterfly, Tadpole little realizes that now he will never know! Follow the predictable changes of a tadpole and a caterpillar to their natural conclusion in this award winning picture book.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780689865244 (0689865244)
Publish date: May 17th 2005
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Pages no: 32
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Childrens,
Love,
Humor,
Funny,
Environment,
Nature,
Picture Books,
Animals,
Death,
Relationships
Read this to my little niece and nephew a few years ago and they both loved it, especially the darkly humorous twist at the end. Wonderfully illustrated, not to mention educational too.
I think that this is my favorite picture book to read aloud! Hysterical!
Great cynical read aloud for valentines day.
Ah, one of the best picturebooks ever. I read it aloud in my masters level courses each time I get a new cohort. I laugh at the end, and they find it disturbing--disequilibrium!