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A tadpole and a caterpillar fall in love. Despite promising to never change, the tadpole grows arms and legs and becomes a frog. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly and is eaten by the frog.
The short, partly inspired by a 1944 Cary Grant film entitled Once Upon a Time involving a dancing caterpillar in a small box, marks the debut of Michigan J. Frog: an anthropomorphic frog with a talent for singing and dancing that he demonstrates for no one except whoever possesses the box wherein he resides.
Noted for listing a variety of international works, 1001 Children's Books You Must Read Before You Grow Up features stories originally written in a multitude of languages, which includes Japanese, Slovak, Italian, Chinese, Swedish, Russian and Dutch. [3]
The Frog and the Lizard [2] The Two Who Were Brothers Indeed [3] How the Gond Saved His Field of Gram [4] Bhimsen and Fever [5] The King Who Learned From a Cock [6] The Wicked Mother-In-Law [7] How a Wedding Song Saved Property [8] The Wonderful Ox [9] The Three Drunkards [10] Satwanti [11] The Woman on a Fig Tree [12]
The Very Hungry Caterpillar is the third book Carle illustrated and only the second he wrote himself. [3] The plot originated as a story called A Week with Willi the Worm, which featured a bookworm named Willi. Carle was inspired to write the story after using a hole punch that reminded him of a worm. [4]
Frog and Toad were voiced by Will Ryan and Hal Smith respectively. [17] [18] Only Frog and Toad Are Friends was narrated by Lobel. [citation needed] Frog and Toad Are Friends was released on May 23, 1985; Frog and Toad Together on September 3, 1987. [citation needed] They were distributed to the home market only (direct-to-video). [citation needed]
Some English translators misidentified Büsching's variant as one of the Brothers Grimm's stories. [7] [8] Parker Fillmore translated a Czechoslovak variant titled The Betrothal Gifts: The Story of Kubik and the Frog. In this tale, a poor farmer decides to divide his possessions with his three sons, by setting a test: they must find nice wives ...
This story is classified as Aarne–Thompson Type 402, the Animal Bride, and closely related to The Frog Princess, wherein a transformed frog, the bride of the youngest son, performs better at three tasks to test the brides than the other sons' human brides.