Once Upon a Toad

I really enjoyed this over-the-top reworking of an old fairy tale. I found the characters fun and believable, the set-up enjoyable, and the payoff delightful. I loved that it's set in my town, and I dug the Great Aunt a lot. There's a tiny Betsy-Tacy nod embedded in this book, and it made me laugh o......more

This was a really funny book and I highly recommend it for anyone who likes fairy tales. Some other books by this same author (Heather Vogel Frederick) is for example: the Mother Daughter Book Club Sires. It has seven books in it and all of her books have drama, sadness, and other emotion. This book......more

I loved this book too! I like how there is always a big problem in the book that this author writes, and the characters always come up with very interesting ways to solve them! I couldn't put this book down!......more

This was an awesome book!! It had a wonderful plot line!! I thought it was going to be so predictable but it had so many twists and turns that i couldn't make easy predictions! Loved IT......more

This book was a ticklish, contemporary retelling of a rarely-touched tale: Diamonds and Toads. In the original tale, a woman has two daughters: one's a stepdaughter, the other her true-born daughter: she favors her own child and sends the stepdaughter to do all the menial work. So far, so good, eh? C......more