The Frog Who Had a Frog in His Throat
By: Andrew Straka, age 6
One very hot morning, Willie Wilfred Frog was sitting on his lily pad when he suddenly felt something funny in his throat and he began to cough. “Ehh . . ehhh.”
He leapt over to his friend Bilzo Beaver’s log. He was still coughing.
Bilzo asked, “Why are you coughing?”
“Ehh..Ehh,” coughed Willie Wilfred Frog. “I have something in my throat.”
Bilzo said, “Maybe you have a frog in your throat!”
Wilfred’s face turned pale and he was frozen like an ice cube. “I have a frog in my throat! Ehh . . eh . . That’s terrible!”
He leapt away wondering, how could I have a frog in my throat? Could it be my friend, Harold? Did he jump into my mouth when I started to cough?
So he wondered and wondered and wondered what he could do to get the frog out of his throat. Then he took a stick from Beaver’s house and stuck it in his throat, but it didn’t work. It just made it worse.
Next he tried doing a magic trick that he learned from his old friend Weasel. “Presto, chango!” he shouted, but it didn’t work. He still had a frog in his throat.
So he hopped over to Harold’s house and he yelled, “Harold, Harold, look you’re home! Jump out of my throat quick!”
Then he heard a voice saying, “Look behind you.” It was Harold! He wasn’t stuck in his throat!
Willie Wilfred said, “Oh, I thought you were trapped in my throat. Bilzo Beaver said I had a frog in my throat and he’s very smart, so I thought I must have swallowed you!”
Harold gave him some ladybug medicine and said, “A frog in your throat doesn’t mean there’s a real frog in your throat. It just means your voice sounds like a frog. Take some of this ladybug medicine. It will make the frog go away.”
The medicine worked and Wilfred was happy that the frog in his throat was finally gone.
~The End~
Illustration Copyright © 2009 Sara Tommer
Copyright © 2009 by Andrew Straka, age 6