Series · Prime Video · 2023
Frog and Toad
Friendship, patience, and a day that is enough. One of the best things a young child can sit with.
Frog is steady. Toad is not. The stories are about how a steadier friend behaves, which is by staying, and how an anxious one behaves, which is by trying. Nothing explodes. The stakes are a garden and a letter and a swim. A child raised on a feed will find this slow for four minutes and then, if you leave it on and sit there, will lower their voice to match it.
Put it on for Kiki. Read the book in the same week if you have it. The pictures on the page are still better. The film is a fair door.
The eight
Industry
5/10
A garden, a cake, a list of things to do. Work is small and finished.
Household
6/10
Not a family by blood. A household of two who keep coming to the door.
Piety
4/10
Quiet is allowed. Nothing is mocked for being gentle.
Courage
5/10
Toad is afraid of ordinary things and does them with Frog beside him.
Republic
8/10
A pond, a path, and the duty of a friend. That is a complete country.
Temperance
9/10
Wanting is a cookie or a nap. The stories know when enough has arrived.
Truth
8/10
They tell each other the slightly embarrassing truth.
Stewardship
8/10
Arnold Lobel's pages were already an inheritance. This keeps them usable.
Live historicallyBake or plant one thing with a child that cannot be finished quickly.