Toad Rage by Morris Gleitzman

Limpy can't understand why humans hate all cane toads so much - they even
squash them with their cars. He is determined to save his own family from
ending up as flat as place mats. He sets off on a 'mucas-chillingly dangerous
and wart-tinglingly daring journey' and risks everything to make humans see
that cane toads are really very nice.

Amazon Review
"Uncle Bart," said Limpy, "Why do humans hate us?"

Uncle Bart looked down at Limpy, and smiled fondly.

"Stack me, Limpy," he chuckled, "you are an idiot."

Limpy, a slighty squashed cane toad, is struggling to get to grips with the
idea that humans really hate him and his kind, and refuses to bow down to the
popular cane toad "that's life" philosophy that has led to the severe
flattening of far too many of his uncles. So, he decides to take things into
his own hands and embarks on a journey across Australia in the hope that he can
change the minds of the whole human race.

Morris Gleitzman's Toad Rage is a superbly wry, dry and outrageously funny
take on the coming-of-age journey. As Limpy does battle with the dusty outback
tracks and the danger-ridden streets of the Big City the reader is swept along
with his quest for absolute understanding, living and breathing every moment of
the always insightful and occasionally terrifying journey into the unknown.

Limpy, with his squished limbs and fine collection of very flat uncles, is a
sweet and determined youngster whose inquisitive nature and total belief is
typically indicative of a Gleitzman hero. Indeed, Gleitzman pulls off this
funny, sensitive and totally absorbing story with the heart-warming (and
occasionally heart-rending) aplomb that will be familiar to any reader who has
read Two Weeks with The Queenor his stunning Rowena Batts trilogy. And as
usual, he doesn't offer any nice, neat answers but instead allows his
characters, and the reader, to come to their own conclusions about whether or
not the battle is worth the effort.

Gleitzman is simply a superb author who deserves to be read and enjoyed, and
with Toad Rage he pulls off another quirky winner that children will love, and
adults will surely be tempted by.--Age 9 and over.

Review

'Toad Rage is a superbly wry, dry and outrageously funny take on the
coming-of-age journey. As Limpy does battle with the dusty outback tracks and
the danger-ridden streets of the Big City the reader is swept along with his
quest for absolute understanding, living and breathing every moment of the
always insightful and occasionally terrifying journey into the unknown.'
Reviewer, Amazon --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition
of this title."