The Pond is a short story about two turtles and their friends. The boy turtle, Icky, has a crush on the girl turtle, Sparkelet. Icky and his best friend Tode, a frog, have bad eating habbits. One day while all of the pond critters are dining at the pond side on fat tasty bugs, Icky lets out a hudge annoying burp. Sparkelet and her froglet friend Nudia did not like it one bit. They confronted the two noisy eaters but the boys just brushed them off and continued. Sparkelet and Nudia decided to move away from the boys so that the boys could not see them and they could not hear the boys. Everything was going great until Sparkelet started thinking about eating maggots. She convinced Nudia to follow her into the woods. Neither one of them had ever ventured in the woods before. Danger awaited the two helpless critters. Never the less deep into the wood they went.