In Fiction
- The Natterjack is a primary character in the book The Time Garden by Edward Eager. In it, the Natterjack is portrayed as a magical creature who understands the laws of magic and time and assists the children on their adventures.
- Natterjack is a character in the CBeebies show Kerwhizz.
- In season 2 of My Family, Susan uses the Natterjack's mating life as a metaphor for the crisis that Ben finds himself in: "The Natterjack toad has a problem, if he wants to mate with the alpha female, he has to croak louder than all the other Natterjack toads, but when he does that bats home in on his call and devour him."
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“I write fiction and I’m told it’s autobiography, I write autobiography and I’m told it’s fiction, so since I’m so dim and they’re so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn’t.”
—Philip Roth (b. 1933)
“Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...”
—Ellen Glasgow (1873–1945)