I'll go and get you a frog.' And that's what happened. The fellow took the box with Daniel Webster in it while Smiley went off to find a suitable opponent for a jumping contest. They both put up forty dollars, winner take all. ...
The 'Jumping Frog' was the first piece of writing of mine that spread itself through the newspapers and brought me into public notice. Consequently, the 'Saturday Press' was a cocoon and I the worm in it; also, I was the gay-coloured literary moth which its death set free. This simile...
“A child of the 1970s, I grew up with the Frog and Toad stories when they were first published. My mother shared these delightful, thoughtful and funny stories with me at an age when I was just starting to make friends and figuring out what it meant to be a friend,” said Stuart C...