Personal Toad and Chicken : Toad Meets His Forever-Friend

On a warm autumn night when he should have been sound asleep like his neighbors, Toad strutted out of his log cabin, clambered atop a gargantuan mushroom, and, illuminated by the spotlight of the moon, took center stage and began to sing with all his might: ¿I was born in the swamp! Nee-ee swamp! Nee-ee swamp! And the swamp is where I live! Nee-ee swamp! Nee-ee swamp!¿ Meet Personal ToadTM, a vibrant, enthusiastic little character with a big mouth. It isn¿t that his mouth is physically larger than any other toad¿s mouth, but rather that he talks and sings too much, and he never thinks before he speaks or sings, nor does he care to; Toad simply lets everything that comes to his mind escape through his big mouth. However, in his first reading adventure, Toad Meets His Forever-Friend, Toad soon learns an unpleasant lesson about controlling his big mouth during the course of a colorful reading story that involves a daring rescue, being encased in mud, and meeting Chicken, a compassionate, white hen, who becomes his caring Forever-Friend. Personal Toad and ChickenTM stories delight and entertain young readers, yet are intended to help children build and maintain their vocabularies as they discover the meanings of the underlined words that are sprinkled throughout the narrative, which are then clearly defined in Personal Toad and Chicken¿s Little Brown DictionaryTM - the ¿book within a book¿ - featured at the end of each story! Personal Toad and Chicken¿s Little Brown DictionaryTM includes at least one definition for each word found in the story. Personal Toad and Chicken¿s Little Brown DictionaryTM should be viewed as a colorful story companion that encourages adults to introduce children to the joys of looking up the meanings of words in a regular dictionary. In short, adults should think of a real dictionary as a bicycle, Personal Toad and Chicken¿s Little Brown DictionaryTM as a really fun set of training wheels, and Toad Meets His Forever-Friend as a colorful friend and guide that propels kids toward great verbal success!