Thoroughly enjoyed this book that I read as a child. Physically the same book that I read when I was a kid. The book was one that was withdrawn from the Stewart Library and purchased by my Dad for my girls when they were little. That book had repairs and an ugly cover that I had put on it when I worked at the library in the '70s. A tale of four friends that teaches the importance of friendship, and not to be an egotistical fool. While it does show friends that never give up perhaps it doesn't deal with enabling. And I'm not sure the toad has really learned his lesson in the end. He is quite the ridiculous jack in the box.