Edel Rodriguez

Once there was a boy named Leonard who loved to sing and to act. His parents were immigrants who felt like aliens in America, and certainly didn't understand Leonard's drive to perform. "Learn to play the accordion," his father told him. "Actors starve, but at least musicians can eke out a living." But Leonard reached for the stars... and caught them. He moved to Hollywood, where he took acting lessons, and drove a taxi and took every role he could...

Explores the scientific relevance of an exotic frog, Rhinoderma darwinii, discovered by Charles Darwin in 1834, describing how researchers came to the surprising realization that the males of the species care for their developing young.--