Q: I just read your Disney Trivia book and decided to ask you about something I’ve been wondering for quite a while. I have a copy of The Giant Walt Disney Word Book (published in 1971). The book has a red cover (hardcover), showing Merlin the wizard holding an open book while Disney characters like Bambi, Pluto, Dumbo, etc. fly up and around him. Anyhow, a character I don’t recognize shows up several times in this book. It is a green frog with big, black, bushy eyebrows. I can’t find anything on this frog anywhere! Could you please tell me who this frog is, and what movie, cartoon, or story he is from?
Victoria, Granite Falls, Washington
A: The frog you describe is probably based on one of Merlin’s transformations during the Wizard’s Duel sequence in The Sword in the Stone. The frog is wearing Merlin’s glasses, as it does in the film.
Dave Smith