Tadpole's Promise

{{Short description|2003 children's picture book by Jeanne Willis}}

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| name = Tadpole's Promise

| image = Tadpole's Promise.jpg

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| caption = First edition

| author = Jeanne Willis

| illustrator = Tony Ross

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| country = United Kingdom

| language = English

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| genre = Children's

| publisher = Andersen Press

| pub_date = April 24, 2003

| pages = 32 pp

| isbn = 978-1-84270-069-3

| congress= MLCS 2006/45264

| oclc= 56712929

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Tadpole's Promise is a 2003 British children's picture book written by Jeanne Willis and illustrated by Tony Ross. It won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize Silver Award[http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/ Nestlé Children's Book Prize] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928115005/http://www.booktrusted.co.uk/nestle/|date=2007-09-28}} and was longlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal.[http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/ The CILIP Carnegie Medal & Kate Greenaway Children's Book Awards]

Plot

A tadpole and a caterpillar fall in love. Despite promising to never change, the tadpole grows arms and legs and becomes a frog. The caterpillar becomes a butterfly and is eaten by the frog.

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