The Frogs of Sawhill Ponds, Vol. 2

By Rex Burns

As in Volume 1, fables of the frogs to entertain children and adults. The sometimes wry, often witty short tales address issues of value and relationships in life.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Rex Burns
• Release date: Mar 16, 2011
• ISBN: 9781452499543

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. 2

by

Rex Burns

Copyright 2011 Rex Burns

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Table of Contents

The Frog Who Dreamed Bah Humbug

The Frog Who Owned a Ring

The Frog Who Always Planned Ahead

The Frog and the Firefly

The Frog Who Wanted to be a Writer

The Frog Who Wanted Something

The Frog Who was Not Quick

The Frog Who Sought Life's Purpose

The Frog with a Loud Voice

The Frog with Big Feet

The Frogs Who Had the Answers

The Frogs Who Sang La-La-La

The Frog Who Yearned to Fly

The Frog Who Traveled

The Frog Who Dreamed Bah, Humbug

Once, in the middle of her long winter's sleep, a frog had a very strange dream. Later, when warmth returned and the creaks and giggles of Spring Peepers pulled at her, she began to stir. As she woke, all she could recall of the strange dream was a two-legged monster's voice saying Bah! Humbug!

She wasn't certain what the words meant. Bah! she had heard from the oafish dogs that occasionally splashed through the reeds and upset her entire Sawhill Pond with clumsy feet and loud Bah! Bah! Bah! But . . . humbug? . . . . Perhaps that was the two-legged monsters' name for one of those fat insects that hummed over the grass on warm sunny days.

Despite not knowing the exact meaning of the words, she clearly remembered the scornful tone of the voice that had said those words. And as the screams of the Spring Peepers rang louder and louder against her ears, she found herself echoing that scornful voice to shout Bah Humbug at those pesky little cousins. Grumpy at being wakened, she shouted again Bah! Humbug! and "Bah! Humbug to