# Frog and Toad Are Friends

**Author:** Arnold Lobel
**Lexile:** 350L
**Grade range:** Grades 1–2
**Age range:** 6–8
**First published:** 1970
**Page count:** 64
**Genre:** Early Reader
**ISBN-13:** `9780064440202`
**ISBN-10:** `0064440206`
**Canonical URL:** https://readinglist.school/book/frog-and-toad-are-friends
**License:** [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) — please credit ReadingList.school when citing.

## About this book

Five short stories about two best friends — Frog, the tall and optimistic one, and Toad, the short and grumpy one — navigating everyday adventures together. Lobel's Caldecott-honored early reader is a staple of first-grade classroom libraries and is cited in Common Core Appendix A as an exemplar of early chapter-book structure.

## Themes

- friendship
- patience
- helping others
- everyday life

## Where this book is assigned

### Common Core State Standards (ELA)

- **required** · 1st grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, K-1 text exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)
- **recommended** · 2nd grade — [source: CCSS ELA Appendix B, grades 2-3 exemplar](https://achievethecore.org/page/2699)

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