In spring, Mother Frog laid nine hundred and ninety-nine eggs in the little pond. One warm day, out hatched nine hundred and ninety-nine tadpoles. They were tiny, but full of beans. Mother and Father Frog were delighted. They told their babies, 'Grow big. Grow strong.' The nine hundred and ninety-nine tadpoles grew and grew. All squeezed together in the pond, they croaked up quite a din: 'Can't move!' 'Can't breathe!' Mother and Father sighed. 'It's good they've grown but-' '-what shall we do?' Both said at the same time: 'We'll have to move.'

Author Biography

Ken Kimura has written the popular '999 Tadpoles' series of books. Yasunari Murakami is one of Japan's bestloved illustrators and has won countless awards. He was born in 1955. He has a museum dedicated to his work.