Grandpa Frog

Grandpa was always fun to visit. He always had a smile on his green face. He made everyone feel happy. But the best thing about Grandpa was that he could tell stories that were out of this world or maybe I should say ‘out of this pond.’

Grandpa was the oldest bullfrog at these parts of the area. Everyone knew him. He was friends with all of
the fishes and even Chester the crab.


Chester was new to this area. He usually lived far away but he decided to explore and see if there was food for him to catch. Chester had more legs than Grandpa or me, and he could move fast. But he could not hop. Grandpa always let him know that hopping was better.

“Oh howdy! Howdy Little Hopper” Grandpa would greet me as I hopped over from Stinky Marsh area to the bank of the Bluebottle Fly Pond one day. We had seen whopper-sized flies, but today I think we may have seen a bottle fly big enough to keep me full for a couple of hours if not a full day. I had to out hop Jimmy Jumper Frog but I remembered the trick Grandpa taught me. I would wait to see which way the fly would zig and zag and then I would hop that way, stick out my tongue and ‘slurp-um!’ Mission accomplished!

Then one day we saw a creature was running near our pond. He had only two legs and was swinging something that was on a stick.



He was trying to catch a butterfly that was getting ready to lay her eggs on the leaf of a plant nearby. I think that they call this creature, a little boy. He was trying to catch this butterfly but just as he got near her, she would move higher and go to a branch of a nearby bush. She was yellow, pink and blue. Her wings were the prettiest I have seen. It was nice that she got away. I hope that the little boy will go somewhere else.

One day I saw something floating in our marsh that had no legs, no arms or head.
It just moved around when the water moved it. Grandpa said that big creatures like the little one we saw threw it on the other side of the pond. Many of the animals looked at it and swam away. But one day little Sissy Fish swam into the hole and almost couldn’t get out.


She told her brothers and sisters that a monster lived in that strange thing. The little fishes were so afraid that they stayed away from it.

I swam near it and even tried to look into the hole. It was dark inside. Chester the crab tried to scare it away by waving his pinchers at it. But it still stayed in our area.

Then one day that little boy with the stick came back and pulled the monster out of our pond. He pulled some other things out that we did not like in our pond like paper and a plastic bag. I guess that little boy likes our pond as much as we do. I like it when he gets ugly things out of our pond, but I hope that he doesn’t catch the butterfly.


The first picture is a crab.
The second picture is a little boy with a net.
The third picture is an empty soda can.
The fourth picture is a fish.
My clip art had no frog picture. :(
When I figure how to insert, I'll redo. Sorry for the omission right now.