A Song for Little Toad

by N/A

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.30

• Used

  Hardcover
  1995

  $3.30

  A bedtime story about motherly love, which was shortlisted for the 1995 Smarties Book Prize (0-5 category). Croak croak croak, Sleep, my little sweet one. Croak croak croak, Close your eyes and sleep. ;This is the song that Old Mother Toad sings to her baby at bedtime. But Little Toad's eyes are bright and shining. A soft Baaaaa, Baaaaaa would be more soothing, a sheep suggests, while a passing duck advises a cheerful Quack! Quack! Quackitty quack! When a nightingale offers his remedy, a sweet and gentle lullaby, a tear falls from Old Mother Toad's eye. For how can a toad match the singing of a nightingale? Happily, though, Little Toad himself has the solution - it's his mother's song that he wants and asks for and that, finally, sends him to sleep.;Vivian French's books include Jackson's Juniors , Under the Moon , Zenobia and Mouse , Mary Poggs and the Sunshine , Once Upon a Time , Why the Sea is Salt , 'Princess Primrose , Baker Ben , Doctor Elsie , Lazy Jack , Caterpillar, Caterpillar (shortlisted for the Emil/Kurt Maschler Award), The Apple Trees and Spider Watching .; Barbara Firth won the Smarties Book Prize and the 1988 Kate Greenaway Medal for Can't You Sl