J the tadpole is ready for a relaxing weekend morning in Lilypad City, but his big sister, K, has other plans--an epic road trip in a car of her own design.

Presents a linked collection of ten short stories in rhyme featuring frogs, toads, and polliwogs.

Summary: Sometimes the biggest stories come from the smallest beginnings... Meet Tad. She's the smallest tadpole in a big pond, and lives there with all her tadbrothers and tadsisters. Although something else lives there too... BIG BLUB! And when everyone else starts to disappear, Tad starts to wonder if Big Blub will get her too... Or is everyone else going somewhere else; somewhere better? And if so, will Tad ever get there too? A big story about...

Illustrations and rhyming text follow a small group of tadpoles as they undergo a change, from tiny, tailed swimmers to leaping frogs.

Tadpole is distressed because all of the animals he encounters can jump and he has not yet learned how, but the ability comes to him just at the right time.

Little Frog likes being an only frog, but when a net-wielding boy presents danger, Little Frog has to remember all that she has been taught in order to save the tadpoles from disaster.