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    The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1
    The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1
    The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1
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    The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1

    By Rex Burns

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    The fourteen fables in "The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds" blend wit, wisdom, and verbal play in the tradition of "Wind in the Willows." Though many of the topics are serious, their treatment is light. Adults and children will find entertainment and depth as the frogs confront life's issues.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRex Burns
    Release dateMar 16, 2011
    ISBN9781452477336
    The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1
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    Rex Burns

    Rex Burns (b. 1935) is the author of numerous thrillers set in and around Denver, Colorado. Born in California, he served in the Marine Corps and attended Stanford University and the University of Minnesota before becoming a writer. His Edgar Award–winning first novel, The Alvarez Journal (1975), introduced Gabe Wager, a Denver police detective working in an organized crime unit. Burns continued this hard-boiled series through ten more novels, concluding it with 1997’s The Leaning Land. One of the Wager mysteries, The Avenging Angel (1983), was adapted as a feature film, Messenger of Death, starring Charles Bronson. Burns’s other two series center on Devlin Kirk and James Raiford, both Denver-based private detectives. Once a monthly mystery review columnist in the Rocky Mountain News, Burns has also written nonfiction and hosted the Mystery Channel’s Anatomy of a Mystery. He lives and writes in Boulder, Colorado.

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      The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 1 - Rex Burns

      The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds

      Vol. 1

      by

      Rex Burns

      Copyright 2011 Rex Burns

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      Table of Contents

      The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon

      The Frog Who Wondered

      The Frog Who was Right

      The Frog of the Wrong Color

      The Frog Who Hopped Slowly

      Frogs of Opposing Views

      Frog Commandments

      The Lonely Frog

      The Frog With Very Cold Toes

      The Innermost Frog

      The Frog's Nightmare

      The Sad Frog

      A Small Frog in a Big Pond

      The Frog Who Decided to Learn Everything

      The Frog Who Swallowed the Moon

      (with Kari Burns)

      Once a Very Ugly Frog read, You Are What You Eat. Because it was in a book, the Very Ugly F believed it, and reasoned that if he ate beautiful things he would become handsome. So he began to diet on colorful butterflies, sparkling insects, flies of the softest hues, and beetles of gold and green and bronze. But any results seemed very, very slow. So he reasoned further that if he could swallow the most beautiful thing he had ever seen, he could become handsome more quickly. And that most beautiful thing was the full moon!

      His friends laughed at him: It's too big!

      It's too far away!

      No one can do that!

      But the Very UF watched each night as the moon grew larger, larger, finally swelling to succulent fullness among the stars above the pond.

      When the moon was ripest, the VUF flung his tongue up to snare the silver feast.

      But his tongue wasn't long enough and it fell back empty.

      He opened his

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