Betty Merrifield graduated from Sheridan College with a diploma in Animation. Her artwork can be found on various articles. She has painted on Muskoka chairs, maple syrup pails, canoe paddles, T shirts and figure skates. Over the years her volunteering has lead to creating posters and props and painting the local hockey team's logo at center ice. She is the artist behind some of the amazing scarecrows that appear each fall in Meaford where she lives with her husband, daughter, son and border collie. Betty was born in Peterborough, Ontario, where as a child spent summer catching and playing with frogs in the pond nearby. She is thrilled to paint her first children's book.

Oliver and his friends go for a sleigh ride to celebrate his birthday. Everyone enjoys all the sights on the way to the bush. There are many winter activities they have fun doing before having a winter style picnic. But one new friend creates a lot of conflict. OliverÕs closest friend is especially offended. Oliver learns the true meaning of friendship.

Mrs Hasalot, a mother frog, has squabbling tadpoles. Darius comes to help settle the dispute between K-tad and G-tad, who are two of twenty-six tadpoles. K-tad and G-tad want to know who is the fastest. So Darius supervises a race. In the first race attempt, one tadpole does some pushing. The next race, one tadpole bites his brother's tail. Then the tadpoles discover they are starting to become frogs.
Now all the tadpoles want to race. Will this race ever end?