A fairy tale about a little frog who was looking for his dad. Gennady Tsyferov - About the eccentric frog (How the little frog was looking for dad): Fairy tale

This fairy tale was once composed by Tatyana Snegireva, a journalist for Komsomolskaya Pravda, for her little daughter Katya. Then someone adult and cunning wrote it down and made a script for a cartoon, without saying a word about who and for whom this fairy tale was told for the first time. My mother heard this fairy tale from Tatyana and told it to me. And now I’m telling it to you the way I remembered and loved this story as a child.

(Dina Shi)

So, there lived a little green Frog in the world. And he didn't have a dad. The little frog decided to find his own dad and went to the Zoo. “After all, there are many different animals there, and you can probably find dad there,” thought Little Frog.

At the Zoo, the first thing Frog went to was the cage with the Elephant. After all, the Elephant is the largest of animals. Little Frog got as close as possible to the fence of the elephant enclosure and shouted with all his might:

Elephant! You're so big, you eat a lot of grass! You are so strong! You're lifting heavy logs! And I’m so small and I eat midges. Come on, will you be my dad?

The Elephant didn’t even notice the Frog right away. And when he saw it, he grinned and trumpeted:

I'm so big. I eat a lot of grass and lift heavy logs. And you are so small that I can’t even see you. How can I be your dad?

The Frog sighed and galloped towards the cage with the Giraffe. Coming closer, he shouted at the top of his voice:

Giraffe! You are so big, your neck is so long! You reach to the very tops of the trees! And I’m so small, and I’m jumping in the grass. Come on, will you be my dad?

The giraffe also did not immediately see the Frog. He bent his long neck to get a better look at who was screaming. And when he looked at it, he laughed and said:

I'm so big! My neck is so long that I can reach the treetops. And you are so small that you can’t even be seen in the grass. How can I be your dad?

The Frog got upset and galloped towards the cage with the Tiger. He was a little afraid of the Tiger, but he really wanted to have a dad! Having galloped to the Tiger, he took a long time to gain courage, and then shouted:

Tiger! You are so big and scary! You have sharp teeth and eat meat. Everyone is afraid of you! And I am so small and weak. Come on, you will be my dad.

The tiger yawned lazily (he was full) and growled contemptuously:

That's funny! I'm so big and scary! I eat meat! And you are so small and weak. How can I be your dad?

Little Frog was completely upset. I almost cried. And he galloped into the grass, away from these animals. Suddenly, he sees a small green Grasshopper sitting in the grass. The Frog jumped up to the Grasshopper and said:

Grasshopper-Grasshopper! I'm so big and you're so small! Come on, I'll be your dad?

And the Grasshopper agreed.

One day a little frog sat by the river and watched a yellow sun swim in the blue water. And then the wind came and said: “Doo.” Both the river and the sun showed wrinkles. The wind got angry and said again: “Doo, doo, doo.” Very much. He apparently wanted to smooth out the wrinkles, but there were more of them.

And then the frog got angry. He took the twig and said to the wind: “And I will drive you away. Why are you frowning at the water and your beloved sun?”

And he drove the wind, drove him through the forest, across the field, through a large yellow ditch. He drove him into the mountains, where goats and sheep graze.

And all day there the little frog jumped after the wind and waved his twig. Someone thought: he drives away the bees. Someone thought: he scares the birds. But he didn’t scare anyone or anything.

He was small. He was an eccentric. I just rode in the mountains and was grazed by the wind.

The second tale

And yesterday a red cow came to visit the little frog. She hummed, shook her smart head and suddenly asked: “Excuse me, green one, but what would you do if you were a red cow?”

“I don’t know, but for some reason I don’t really want to be a red cow.”

- But still?

“I would still dye my hair from red to green.”

- Well, and then?

“Then I would saw off the horns.”

- What for?

- So as not to butt heads.

- Well, what then?

- Then I would file the legs... So as not to kick.

- Well, and then, then?

“Then I would say: “Look, what kind of cow am I? I'm just a little green frog."

The third tale

He probably would have been small all his life, but one day this happened.

Everyone knows what they are looking for. And he himself did not know what the frog was looking for. Maybe mom; maybe dad; or maybe a grandmother or grandfather.

In the meadow he saw a large cow.

“Cow, cow,” he told her, “do you want to be my mother?”

“Well,” the cow mooed. - I’m big, and you’re so small!

On the river he met a hippopotamus.

- Hippopotamus, hippopotamus, will you be my dad?

“Well,” the hippopotamus smacked his lips. - I'm big, and you're small!..

The bear did not want to become a grandfather. And here the frog got angry. He found a small grasshopper in the grass and said to it:

- Well, that's it! I am big and you are small. And I will still be your dad.

Tale Four

-What are butterflies? - asked the grasshopper.

“Flowers are scentless,” answered the frog. — In the morning they bloom. In the evening they fall off. One day I was sitting in a meadow: a blue butterfly had bloomed. Her wings lay on the grass - the wind stroked them. Then I came and stroked it too. I said, “Where do these blue petals come from? Probably flies around the blue sky.”

If the blue sky flies around, it will turn pink. If the blue sky flies around, the sun will bloom. In the meantime, we must sit in the meadow and stroke the blue petals.

The fifth tale

Everyone wants to be bigger. Here is a goat - he wants to be a ram. The ram wants to be a bull. Bull - elephant.

And the little frog also wanted to become bigger. But how, how to do this? Pull yourself by the paw? - does not work. Behind the ear too. But there is no tail...

And then he went out into a large field, sat down on a small hillock and began to wait for the sun to set.

And when the sun began to set, a shadow began to grow from the frog. In the beginning she was like a goat; then - like a ram; then - like a bull; and then - like a big, big elephant.

Then the little frog rejoiced and shouted:

- And I’m a big elephant!

Only the big elephant was very offended.

“And you are no elephant,” he said to the frog. - This is your shadow - a big elephant. And you, you just happen to be a big weirdo at the end of the day.

Tsyferov G., fairy tale "About the eccentric frog" ("How the little frog was looking for dad")

Genre: literary tale about animals

The main characters of the fairy tale “About the Eccentric Frog” and their characteristics

1. Little frog. Green and small. Likes to invent something, very romantic and observant.

1. The little frog is driven away by the wind
2. The frog doesn't want to be a cow.
3. The little frog is looking for his dad and mom.
4. The frog becomes the grasshopper's dad
5. The little frog talks about butterflies
6. The little frog wants to become the size of an elephant.

1. The little frog didn’t like that the wind was causing ripples in the water and he drove the wind into the mountains.
2. The little frog told how to turn a red cow into a green frog.
3. The frog asked the cow, the hippopotamus and the bear if they wanted to become his mother and father.
4. The little frog announced that he was becoming the grasshopper's dad.
5. The frog told the grasshopper that butterflies are scentless flowers.
6. The little frog wanted to become big and waited for his shadow to become the size of an elephant at sunset.

What does the fairy tale “About the Eccentric Frog” teach?
The fairy tale teaches us to love nature, to love animals and plants. Teaches you to see beauty in the most ordinary things. Teaches you to be a romantic. Teaches you to dream.

Review of the fairy tale "About the eccentric frog"
I liked this good fairy tale. The frog in it turned out to be very interesting - kind, dreamy, restless. He is a true romantic, who cannot sit in the same swamp, who wants to do something, to make the world around him more beautiful.

Proverbs for the fairy tale "About the eccentric frog"
You can buy everything, but you can’t buy your father and mother.
The wind flies without wings.
The sun will rise, and so will the morning.
A frog can't be an ox no matter how much water he drinks.
Only the devil lives without a dream.

Read the summary, a brief retelling of the fairy tale “About the Eccentric Frog”
The first tale.
One day, a little frog sat on the river bank and admired the yellow sun, which calmly floated in the blue water.
But then the wind suddenly blew and the sun began to ripple. The frog didn't like it.
And the wind blew stronger. Maybe the wind also didn’t like the ripples on the surface of the water, and it wanted to smooth it out, but it turned out even worse.
At this point the frog got angry and grabbed the twig and drove the wind away. He drove him through forests and fields, into the mountains, to where the goats grazed.
And many saw a frog running in the mountains, waving a twig. Some people thought that the little frog scared the birds or drove away the bees, but the little frog simply grazed the wind. He was a big eccentric.
The second tale.
One day a red cow came to Little Frog and asked him what he would do if he became a red cow.
The little frog said that then he would paint himself green, saw off his horns, file his legs, and tell everyone that he was not a red cow at all, but a green frog.
The third tale.
One day the little frog went to look for his relatives. He asked the cow if she wanted to become his mother. But the cow refused. Then the frog asked the hippopotamus if he wanted to become his dad. But the hippopotamus also refused.
Then the frog asked the bear if he wanted to become his grandfather. But the bear also refused to become related to the frog.
And then the frog got angry. He found a grasshopper in the grass and announced to it that whether he wanted it or not, the frog would now be his dad.
The fourth tale.
The grasshopper asked the frog what butterflies were and the frog replied that they were flowers without a scent.
He told how he once saw a blue butterfly in a field and stroked its wings. And he noticed that it was probably flying around the blue sky. But then the sky turns pink. And then the sun rises. But the grasshopper and he have nothing to do with thinking about this, but their job is to stroke the butterflies.
The fifth tale.
One day the frog wanted to become bigger. He climbed to the top of the hill and waited for the sun to set.
When the sun went down to the horizon, the frog's shadow began to grow. First she began with a goat, then with a ram, then with an elephant. And the frog proudly shouted that he was as big as an elephant.
But the elephant heard and was offended. He said that this frog's shadow was as big as an elephant, and the frog himself was a little eccentric on a hill at sunset.

Drawings and illustrations for the fairy tale "About the Eccentric Frog"

TALE ONE

One day a little frog sat by the river and watched a yellow sun swim in the blue water. And then the wind came and said: “Doo.” Wrinkles appeared both along the river and the sun. The wind got angry and said again: “Doo, doo, doo.” Very much. He apparently wanted to smooth out the wrinkles, but there were more of them.

And then the frog got angry. He took the twig and said to the wind: “And I will drive you away. Why are you frowning at the water and your beloved sun?”

And he drove the wind, drove him through the forest, across the field, through a large yellow ditch. He drove him into the mountains, where goats and sheep graze. And all day long the little frog jumped after the wind and waved the twig. Someone thought: he drives away the bees. Someone thought: he scares the birds. But he didn’t scare anyone or anything.

He was small. He was an eccentric. I just rode in the mountains and was grazed by the wind.

TALE THIRD

He probably would have been small all his life, but one day this happened.

Everyone knows what they are looking for. And he himself did not know what the frog was looking for. Maybe mom; maybe dad; or maybe a grandmother or grandfather.

In the meadow he saw a large cow.

“Cow, cow,” he told her, “do you want to be my mother?”

“Well,” the cow mooed. - I’m big, and you’re so small!..

On the river, the frog met a hippopotamus.

- Hippopotamus, hippopotamus, will you be my dad?

“Well,” the hippopotamus smacked his lips. - I'm big, and you're small!..

But the bear did not want to become either a father or a grandfather.

And then the frog got angry. He found a small grasshopper in the grass and said to it:

- Well, that's it! I'm big and you're small. And I will still be your dad.