Warts'n'All
Anne Morgan
Judith Rossell

Koala 2003
64pp., pbk., $9.95
086461506

In Warts ‘n’ all, Marti wakes up one morning to find a big wart on the middle of her nose. She goes to her mum to ask if she could go to the doctors that very same day. Her mum says next Tuesday but Marti can’t wait that long. So she walks up to her bedroom, but then she hears this croaking outside so she walks outside to shut the noise up. She finds out it is a frog, but not an ordinary frog. She looks at it again and finds that it is a frog with a human. She asks the frog human how to get rid of warts. He said to kiss him on the lips. After a lot of decisions she kisses him on the cheek and her wart goes away. She thanks him and goes back inside. It was full moon that night and Marti’s mother asks why she didn’t have a wart. Marti replied that a frog human got rid of it but then Marti starts to change to a frog. When she had changed, she kissed her mum and her mum started to change and so they lived as frog humans happily ever after.

Reading age 7 - 10

Kelsey, 11 years
Toowoomba Qld