Frog Went A-Courtin' - Paperback

by John Langstaff (Author), Feodor Rojankovsky (Illustrator)

Winner of the 1956 Caldecott Medal

"A favorite old nursery ballad now appears in resplendent new dress. . . . Illustrator Feodor Rojankovsky somehow manages to combine quaintness with sophistication and his doughty frog, the coy mouse . . . and others make charming company."--The New York Times Book Review

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Nobody knows how or when this story really started. We do know that it was written down in Scotland more than 400 years ago. But it has always been the kind of story that was told and sung to children, instead of being read to them.