Tiddalick the Frog (Adaptation)
Illustrator:
Ju-Hong Chen
Susan Miho Nunes
Publication:
1989 by Atheneum
Genre:
Fiction, Folk Tales, Picture Books
Pages:
32
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Long ago in the Dreamtime, long before people roamed the earth, there lived a gigantic frog named Tiddalick. Tiddalick was so big that his shadow turned day into night, so powerful that his voice drowned the thunder, so heavy that a single hop shook the ground for miles and miles around.
It is small wonder, then, that when Tiddalick awakes one morning feeling grumpy and thirsty, he drinks all the water in the world. The land grows hot and dry, the plants wither and die, and the animals are thirsty and hungry. Tiddalick doesn't care about the pleas of the other animals, and he stubbornly refuses to release the water. Everyone despairs. It is little Noyang, the eel, whose wild, wonderful dance defeats the great frog's ill humor and restores the earth once again.
This folktale, attributed to many sources, is here derived from the Australian Aborigines and retold by Susan Nunes.
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Susan Miho Nunes
Susan Nunes's first children's book, Coyote Dreams, was recently published by Atheneum. She is the author of a book of short fiction, A Sm... See more
Ju-Hong Chen
Chinese AmericanJu-Hong Chen was born in Shanghai, China, and now resides in Oregon with his family. A self-taught artist, he worked in many publishing houses in Ch... See more
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