FrogandToad!
The blog post title is how Eliot (my 20 month old son) says his current favorite book, Frog and Toad are Friends.
“Cookies” (shown above) was his favorite story for a while (I love it as well, and cheer Toad on when he says that Frog can have all the will power to resist cookies. Toad wants none for himself: “I am going home now to bake a cake.” You said it, Toad!). Now it’s the much darker “The Dream,” in which Toad learns the pleasure and guilt of being applauded while his best friend grows smaller and smaller. Eliot loves to say, “Poor Toad!” when Toad realizes he’s made Frog disappear.
I really, really wish I had more Frog and Toad with me, because I know all of these stories by heart now (when Eliot dislocated his elbow, all he wanted for the entire ride to the hospital was to hear “Cookies” over and over). I will have to buy them all on my return to the US.
Other Eliot favorites:
The Snowy Day
The House in the Night
Tumble Bumble
This Little Chick
Goodnight Moon (but he doesn’t like me to read it to him, he likes me to recite it to him in the dark while he falls asleep)
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