Toad is a slimy, ugly creature, but he's happy to go about catching flies, crunching bugs and generally oozing in and out of marshy, smelly bogs. He is short-sighted, however, and one day when searching for yet more food he stumbles into the jaws of a passing monster.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 1999 by Random House Children's Publishers UK .

Ruth Brown has created a great many picture books for Andersen Press and is highly respected as an author and illustrator. She is married to artist Ken Brown and they have two grown-up sons and 1 grandson.