I found the best aspect of the book to be the description of the relationships between state and federal regulators, academic researchers and the public. Souder is very thorough in his reporting and investigation.
The story takes the reader from the first discovery to the realization that deformed frogs (meaning frogs ranging from missing legs to multiple legs eye and jaw deformities, internal deformities, etc.) were being found throughout the northern part of the USA and in Canada. William Souder follows the case of deformed frogs discovered in Minnesota in 1995 by a group of school children on a school trip to a local farm pond. I would highly recommend this book for those who are interested in reading about natural environmental indicators and for those who were alive when the deformed frog scare was happening and wish to know more. I will definitely have more respect for frogs when I see them in the wild now and will definitely stop and think if I see any deformed ones. This book definitely made me stop and think about the water supply, water quality, and the environmental indicators frogs are. The book touches on the final answers, but as nothing was truly 100% figured out, there isn't too much detail. A Plague of Frogs analyzes all of the events leading up to the original discovery of the frogs and all of the research that went into trying to figure out what was wrong. This story follows the mysteries of the Minnesota frog deformities. As I'm out of books to read, I picked this one up again figuring I'd read a few more pages of it but discovered that I couldn't put it down again. Then I got about 3/4 of the way through it, got bored, and set it down for a few months. When I first picked up this book, I couldn't put it down.
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