![]() Frog and Toad are dealing with the same bullshit we all are. ![]() It’s clever as hell and bullseye-timely, for sure. There are so many super-excellent things about this book. While you’re at it, bring on the milk and cookies (and water and apple sticks with almond butter and 17.5 extra bedtime snacks that will inevitably be requested). Now more than ever, there’s a serious need to read this kind of heartfelt parody: “Because, these days, adults need bedtime stories too.” Amen, Jennie. If keeping abreast of some of the most Twitterable reads from Dave Eggers’s Literary Cool Club isn’t enough to entice you, perhaps triple threat author-editor-performer, Jennie Egerdie, said it best in her introduction. Excerpts from the book happened to nab two of the top slots on McSweeney’s list of most-read articles of 2020 (“Frog and Toad are Self-Quarantined Friends” and “Frog and Toad Tentatively Go Outside After Months in Self-Quarantine”). Based on Arnold Lobel’s classic children’s series of easy-readers, Frog and Toad Are Doing Their Best: Bedtime Stories for Trying Times, is a whip-smart delight that originally appeared online. ![]() To be more precise, there are actually two amphibians: Frog and Toad. Move over, Kermit! There’s another frog in town, brimming with Amphibian Wisdom. ![]()
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