I loved in the book how day gradually subsides into dusk and dark in the illustrations.

And it was so much fun to read out loud.

As for the story, I think it just is what it is--kind of a piece of fluff? But it would be a fun thing to write a different, wilder story about poison dart frogs--they are so beautiful. When I was writing the fluff story, I googled lots of images of them. And I learned a few words in Embera (tribe that hunts with arrows and darts using that venom).