Max VelthuijsFrog and Friends Picture Book Collection (10 Books)

About

Frog is a picture book character created by Dutch author and illustrator Max Velthuijs. The first Frog title in English was published in 1989, entitled Frog in Love, translated by Klaus Flugge for Andersen Press. Frog books have been translated into more than 50 languages.

Born in The Hague in 1923, Max Velthuijs is now considered to have been one of Holland's most important creators of children's books, alongside Dick Bruna. Max won many awards, including the highly prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal in 2004. He died in 2005, aged 81.

Frog Finds a Friend

A charming story about the well-loved character Frog, showing friendship and parting. When Frog finds a teddy bear all alone in the forest, he takes him home.

Despite the derision of his friends, he plays football with him in the daytime, and tells him stories in the evening to teach the little bear to talk, which indeed he does!

Soon all Frog's friends adore little bear too and give him special treats -- but even so, one day he doesn't want to play anymore, or to say anything. He wants to go home. But that doesn't mean he can't come back again, does it? No, it doesn't!

Frog in Winter

One morning, Frog wakes up knowing that something had gone wrong with the world. Everything is completely white, and it is very cold outside. Much too cold for the Frog to take part in any of the fun that his friends are having with the ice and snow. It's even too cold for him to enjoy a snowball fight After all, he is just a bare frog - he has neither fur nor feathers...

Eventually, the other animals band together to equip Frog with warm clothing and extra firewood. But nothing will really cheer Frog up as much as the arrival of the Spring

Frog and a Very Special Day

Frog is excited - Hare has promised that today will be a very special day. But when Frog decides to find out why, none of his friends seem to know. Has Hare been playing a trick on him?

No - Frog has forgotten his own birthday! Luckily, his friends haven't - they're throwing him a surprise party to celebrate his special day.

Frog is a Hero

When the rains come, and the river bursts its banks, Frog, Duck, Pig, and Hare are stranded. It is Frog who is a hero when he risks his life to help his friends. 'Frog is an inspired creation - a masterpiece of graphic simplicity.

Frog is Frightened

Frog and his friends, Duck, and Pig, don't believe in ghosts until they all hear frightening noises in the dead of night.

They huddle together for comfort in Pig's bed, but in the morning, it is Hare who gets a real fright when he finds Frog's house empty and gets no answer at Pig's because the three friends are now fast asleep! 'Frog is an inspired creation - a masterpiece of graphic simplicity.' - Guardian

Frog in Love

In the very first story to feature the loveable amphibian, Frog is feeling most unwell. He keeps getting hot, then cold, and something inside his chest is going 'thump, thump'. Hare says it means he's in love! But who with? And how can he show his devotion - perhaps by performing the biggest jump ever?

Frog and the Birdsong

One autumn day Frog discovers a blackbird lying motionless in the grass. Worried, he asks his friends what the matter can be. Very gently and simply, then animals begin to understand the meaning of death and the beauty of life in this moving story.

Frog is Frog

The frog is not content to be just a plain green frog, he wants to do the things his friends can do. He tries to fly like Duck, to bake cakes like Pig, and to read like Hare. But all his attempts are doomed to failure, and Frog is disconsolate until Hare points out that his friends love him just the way he is. And in any case, he can swim and leap better than any of them! 'Frog is an inspired creation - a masterpiece of graphic simplicity.

Frog and the Treasure

The eleventh picture book to star the ever-green, always popular amphibian, now available in paperback for the first time. Frog and Little Bear go off to dig for treasure.

"But how do you know there will be treasure?" says Little Bear. "I just know," says Frog. So together they dig a hole; a hole so deep that once they are in, they can't get out. Who will rescue them? And at the end of it all, will they have discovered treasure? Of course, they will.

Frog and the Stranger

When Rat comes to live at the edge of their wood, the animals decide they don't like having a stranger in their midst. But Frog is friendly by nature and decides to find out if Rat is really as unpleasant as he is made out to be.

As Frog discovers, Rat is intelligent and good-hearted and proves in a series of unexpected emergencies that the other animals have been too quick to condemn him.