Wildwood Dancing and Enchanted

When I finished reading wild wood dancing I made a connection with another book I had read before that was similar because both books had a lot to do with a frog that was actually a significant character in the book. In both books the main characters find a frog that can speak, in Wildwood Dancing Jena- the second oldest of five sisters finds a small cold frog as a girl and they become best friends. In the novel Enchanted, Sunday the youngest of seven sisters finds a frog named grumble while walking in the woods.

They are lots of differences between the characters but a big simularity is in both stories the girls have a frog as a companion and they eventually fall in love with the frog. In the novel Wildwood Dancing, when Jena is a little girl finds a frog half-frozen by a pond close to her home; she takes care of him and he becomes her best friend. In the book Enchanted, Sunday(as a teen) befriends a frog while walking in an enchanted forest. In both books the frog is actually a cursed boy/man. I think lots of authors use the particularly famous fairytail of the princess and the frog in their works because it adds a nice romantic ending; although some say the tale has been used so many times it's become a bit cleche.