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I had a flashback about a book from my elementary school days about a frog that drinks all the water in the land, and then all the other animals try to make him spit it out. Looked up the premise, apparently it's an Australian aboriginal story called Tiddalik and it's had many adaptations in children's books over the years. I can't recall which version I read as a kid, none of the illustrations I found are triggering more specific memories but there are a lot of them, has anyone seen this story? Maybe have access to books to scan?

Posted by HPAlpha on 18 October 2022 at 22:48.

Yep, I've run into this story several times on archive.org. I haven't posted any of them because I have a backlog of book instances I'm sitting on. The story has multiple names and the ones I ran across were called "The Greedy Frog" and the "The frog who drank the waters of the world". So, here are the versions I've run into:

https://archive.org/details/barefootbookofan0000adle/page/30/mode/2up - Page 30

https://archive.org/details/frogwhodrankwate0000newt/mode/2up - Variation of the story

https://archive.org/search.php?query=Tiddalik - Found these by searching "Tiddalik"

https://archive.org/details/tiddalickfrog0000nune_t7i8/page/n18/mode/2up / https://archive.org/details/tiddalickgreedyf0000wuni/page/27/mode/thumb - I found these searching Tiddalick

Also, here's some tips for getting scans from Archive.org: -You borrow books for only an hour on Archive.org and can have up to 10 borrowed when you register. -There's no penalty for letting the timer run out, but having books borrowed stops others from reading them. -A lot of books are faded and darkened out on the website but the website has a photo correction tool built into its reader. It's on the left-hand side. -To save a page from a book, on Firefox, right-click the black space next to the page and click "take screenshot", then click the page you want. -Firefox saves the pages as they are. So, going to full-screen, brightening the image, and adding contrast to fix fading will be captured by the browser.

Posted by Omb74 on 19 October 2022 at 02:32.

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