The Wikipedia entry for Frog and Toad describes the children's book series written and illustrated by Arnold Lobel, published between 1970 and 1979 by Harper & Row. It comprises four titles—Frog and Toad Are Friends, Frog and Toad Together, Frog and Toad All Year, and Days with Frog and Toad—each containing five short stories about the anthropomorphic frog and his uptight friend Toad. The entry details the characters' contrasting personalities, notes that Lobel drew the stories from his own childhood experiences, and mentions later posthumous publications colored by his daughter Adrianne Lobel. It also lists the series' accolades: a Caldecott Honor for the first book, a Newbery Honor for the second, a Christopher Award for the third, and its ranking in the School Library Journal's Top 100 Picture Books survey.
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Throughout this article there is no mention of machines, artificial intelligence, robotics, or any claim about increasing technological capabilities. The text focuses exclusively on the literary history, thematic reception, adaptations into claymation film, a Broadway musical, and an Apple TV+ animated series, and on the cultural impact of the franchise within children's literature. Consequently, the primary source does not provide any evidence to support the HN title's reference to increasingly capable machines.
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