(For the uninitiated: Provincetown is a town at the tip of Cape Cod with a storied LGBT history and present. I booked a room in a Provincetown B&B, the most affordable one I could find but more than I wanted to spend, after my Bear Week plans fell through. The curtains are ruffled, and the bedspread is patterned with seashells. The two of them are also framed on the wall next to the hobbit-like closet, and another framed print hangs between the windows. There’s a stuffed Frog sitting next to a stuffed Toad on the bookshelf, their shoulders touching. I recommend sitting on the floor to read them but then, a lot of my job is sitting on a floor reading children’s books, so you might choose the armchair next to the window. It’s lined with Mouse Soup, Frog and Toad All Year, a story I didn’t know about an elephant. Next to the bed is a low wooden bookshelf. Where mothers put sick children to bed with cold compresses and bulb thermometers. The ceiling slants over the bed, the kind of bed you’d find in a picture book. Since Frog and Toad Together is very concerned with domesticity (tending to a garden, baking, keeping one’s life in some kind of order), let me tell you about this room. The Frog and Toad room in Howard’s End, the Provincetown bed and breakfast Howard would later own, is at least 26 years away. 'Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.Howard Weiner is still eight years away. 'I saw everything,' said frog.' You did very well by yourself.' He saw that frog was not there 'I AM ALL ALONE!'įrog came running down the hill. We can ride a sled better then anybody in the world!' Winter is fun!'Ī crow flew nearby.' Hello, crow,' shouted toad.'look at frog and me. ' I could not steer the sled without you, frog' he said. Toad rushed past trees and rocks.' Frog, I am glad Toad, you sit in front I will sit right behind you.'

On my sled,' said frog.' Not me,' said toad.' Do not be afraid,' said frog.' I Will be with you on the sled. They tramped through the snow.'we will ride down this big hill ' I am only getting you ready for winter.' Frog said.įrog and toad went outside.

Frog pulled snowpants up over the bottom of toad.

Frog knocked at toad's door.'toad, wake up, ' he cried.'come out and see how wonderful the winter is!'i will not,'said toad.'i am in my warm bed.' winter is beautiful,'said frog' come out and haveįun.' Blah,' said road.'I do not have any winter clothes.' Frog came into the house 'I have brought you some things to wear,' he said frog pushed a cost down over the top of toad.

Frog and toad all year