Among the speakers: a frog named Kermit.
The most fetching relationship is between the saxophonist's fish, Daphne, and a frog named Casanova.
In the late 1960's, one of his puppet characters, a frog named Keroyon, starred in a hit children's television show.
Later in the novel, another stranded victim from the river, a frog named Gower, comes and bestfriends Abel.
The narrator reads a book about a frog named Freddy who lived in a pond of water.
A frog named Walden, who lives in the center's pond, is the subject of some of the stories and songs.
A frog named Kaj and a parrot named Andrea.
Her sidekick, a frog named Lancelot, is also equipped with a Jamaican accent.
Slippy finds love with a frog named Amanda, and thus spends less time with the team.
And "A Visit" simply recounts a man's perplexing visit with an old friend who has married a frog named Alice.