A little over a year ago François Latapie (below) opened Little Frog on the Upper East Side at a time when the way overdue Second Avenue Subway construction was disrupting every business in the area.

“Stupid tadpoles,” Little Frog says about his nine new siblings. They can’t do much (“The tadpoles couldn’t even jump”), and they require all of his parents’ attention. Casting the family as frogs ...

At night, the mountain forests of New Guinea come alive with weird buzzing and beeping calls made by tiny frogs, some no bigger than your little fingernail. These little amphibians – in the genus ...