Despite the opposition of Ancient Eric and Malcolm, Limpy goes on a quest to find a place where cane toads can be safe from humans and live in harmony.
All the animal students in Miss Gator's school try to help Tardy Toad break his habit of always being late to school, but their attempts have a disastrous result.
Text and photographs describe how a toad changes from a tadpole to a toadlet to a toad during its first three years of life and how it eats, hibernates, and spawns.