Joyful multi-speaker frog poem published in a book before 1998?

December 2, 2020 6:07 PM

In 1998 or so [year could be off] I remember reading a cheerful poem either in a child's book or child-friendly book in the strikingly joyful voice of several frogs very happy about... water? The poem was unusual in that it was laid out as a call-and-response or simultaneous-speaker text, where both voices were on the page at the same time. I can't confidently recall any of the words in the poem.

This is a really weird question, I know, but the internet is turning up absolutely nothing, and I'm trying to explain this poem to someone else.

posted by Tick Tock Tourmaline to Writing & Language (4 answers total)

Best answer: Frog Serenade (scroll down) by Georgia Heard from Boom Bellow Bleat?
posted by nonane at 6:28 PM on December 2, 2020 [2 favorites]

Best answer: Don't have a copy handy to check, but it sounds like it could have been from Paul Fleischman's Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices, which was all from the perspective of bugs and critters.
posted by nebulawindphone at 7:07 PM on December 2, 2020 [4 favorites]

Best answer: I also thought of Paul Fleischman's book, but just checked my copy, and no poems about frogs - it's all insects.
posted by miaow at 10:32 PM on December 2, 2020 [2 favorites]

Response by poster: You're all right. I've mentally mixed up Heard's poem and Fleischman's book. Thank you all so, so much, this is one loud brain bugbear that won't be keeping me up tonight!
posted by Tick Tock Tourmaline at 12:01 AM on December 3, 2020 [2 favorites]