Where the willow tree meets the water, a tadpole met a caterpillar. They gazed into each other's tiny eyes...and fell in love. "I love everything about you," said the caterpillar. "Promise you'll never change." And foolishly the tadpole promised... But we all know that tadpoles don't stay the same, and neither do caterpillars. Will they still be able to love each other?
Reviews:
Beginning with pages that open vertically instead of horizontally, this tongue-in-cheek tale takes a typical love story and sets it squarely–and amusingly–on end. Ross's vibrantly hued pen-and-ink and watercolor cartoons depict the edge of a pond where a caterpillar and a tadpole meet and fall in love: "She was his beautiful rainbow, and he was her shiny black pearl." Joy Fleishhacker, School Library Journal