Now available in a twentieth anniversary edition, this modern classic has been given a new afterword by the author and stunning new jacket art by Tony DiTerlizzi.
Jennifer Murdley would give anything to be beautiful. But then she buys a particularly ugly toad--one who can talk and, in fact, won't shut up--who shows her a thing or two about the meaning of true beauty.
• California Young Reader Medal
• Children's Choice Award Nominee (in ten states)
BRUCE COVILLE is the bestselling author of dozens of books, including Armageddon Summer (cowritten with Jane Yolen), My Teacher Is an Alien, Into the Land of the Unicorns, and The Monsters of Morley Manor. He lives in Syracuse, New York.