First published not in the 40s but in the teens. The edition I read was a 1924 reprint. Still always a fun read and the old books are in amazing shape.

This was a read-aloud for school.

My kids enjoyed his exclamations of "Chugarum!"

I read this book many times as a child, but, did not remember it as an adult. I still have the copy my grandmother gave me to read on our travels on the Greyhound bus trips we made when I was in elementary school. My book is old and tattered, but the illustrations are wonderful! I loved reading this story as an adult. There are lessons for all of us no matter what age we are. As a grandma now, I relate more to old Grandfather Frog, ha! ha!