On an unusual wet, rainy day when the yard is flooded, a girl named Allis looks outside and sees a small figure parachuting from a sweet-gum tree. Curious, she goes outside in the pouring rain and meets an extraordinary talking frog wearing a suit-coat and a tie. At first she doesn't believe her ears, but then her sister Elsa, joins them. Together, they sit in the rain, on the very wet day with water, water, everywhere, while the witty frog tells stories of his adventures as an extraordinary frog.

I lie in the dust and lookup at the world... So begins the narration of an allegory revealing irony behind a perspective twist of education. ... I gaze up at the grasses towering above me. I watch the feet of people as they pass, some shuffling, some lightly and barely touching the ground. Some with steps like a dance. I have lain in rain and sun and seen the lightening streak across the sky. I wonder if today is the day my life will move on again...

In Frog's Fourth of July, Allis is not feeling well and the family car has a flat. Elsa decides to visit Frog who has his own way of being patriotic. After her visit with Frog and his family, Elsa rejoins her family for s'mores and hotdogs. This is an accompanying book for Water, Water, Everywhere: The Down Pour Adventure on the Very Rainy Day by Tammie Unger