Now in Dragonfly comes the tale of three colorful frogs. One finds a pebble.
Another declares it a chicken egg. But what happens when a baby alligator
hatches instead? "Kids will giggle at the frogs' repeated references to the
friendly newborn as `the chicken.' They'll be even more tickled when the frogs
chuckle at the `mother chicken' who, finally reunited with her offspring,
greets her `sweet little alligator'...In his 40th book, Lionni is in
typically fine form" (Publisher's Weekly).