Rodrigo Folgueira

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RIBBIT! by Rodrigo Folgueira and ills by Poly Bernatene (both from Argentina) Pub by Knopf March 2013 Ages 4-8 978-0307981462

Friendship. Acceptance. Looking beyond skin deep. All good messages. Can they apply when we're talking about pigs and frogs? Let's risk it.

So, here we are in the pond with the usual suspects croaking about and being their own unique selves when .... wait a minute... sitting in the middle of the pond on the best rock I might add is a pig... a large pink pig whose ears cover his eyes. What's he doing there? What does he want? Is he making fun of us? And to their amazement the pig compounds the confusion by opening his snout and giving a loud, pronounced Ribbit.

This is a forest of very charming animals. Any one of them would make a delightful pet but grouped together as they are and faced with this very difficult problem, they are truly befuddled. Actually they are beyond befuddled. They are all the way to angry.

The pig practices his Ribbit and the animals led by a forceful frog with a very magical one-toed foot head off to find he who knows all... the wise beetle.

The subject of diversity and acceptance is running rampant through the forest and is ever so charmingly explored and felt. What does one do when one is faced with a pig who seems to have invaded the world of the frog with not so much as a mother may I. Gasping occurs.

Happily for all of us the beetle turns out to be very wise indeed and equally delightfully endowed with a black horn. If you're going to deal with a subject of such sensitivity, the black horned beetle as oracle is a must.

They won my heart ... all of them. They'll get you too. It's the illustrations...charming and warm along with the clever and marvelous journey through and resolution to our problem. 32 pages Ages 4-8

Delightedly,

Barb
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