A Year with Frog and Toad follows these loveable characters through a year of their friendship–from hibernation to growing seeds to the swimming hole to leaf raking and a quiet holiday night.

The larvae are aquatic and free-swimming—frogs and toads at this stage are called tadpoles ... This is the main reason over half of all frog species are in danger of extinction.

A less fanciful explanation might be that for her latest role at the Manitoba Theatre for Young People, Lyon is playing Toad, one green half of Frog and Toad, the delightful croak monsieurs ...