"Never trust a human." Those are the last words of cane toad Limpy's Uncle Preston, "the ones he'd said just before he was flattened by a funeral procession," in Australian writer Gleitzman's (Two ...

Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman; (Random House, $14.95.) Limpy, an Australian cane toad, is tired of having his relatives squashed flat on the highway and sets out on a quest to save his species in this ...

Limpy the Australian cane toad is tired of watching his relatives get flattened by human motorists. His plan: convince the world that cane toads... Washington Post columnist John Kelly offers his ...