Every child who goes fishing dreams of catching the biggest, most beautiful fish in the world . . . The hero of this tender, glowingly illustrated story catches a fish so large and splendid that he takes it home and puts it in the bathtub so we can keep it forever. He picks flowers from the fields to make his fish feel at home. He reads it stories about animal friends.   But the fish is sad—and because the boy likes his fish so much and wants it to be happy, he learns a real lesson about love.   Max Velthuijs, one of Holland's foremost graphic artists, has created lovely, bright colored pictures that are at once realistic and full childlike fantasy. The Little Boy and the Big Fish is a memorable book, jolly, sad, and wise, with the honest emotion that children will recognize as their own.   Praise for Max Velthuijs’s The Kind-Hearted Monster “With enduring themes of acceptance and kindness, these stories will charm a new generation.”—School Library Journal

The Little Boy and the Big Fish

Velthuijs, Max

North-South Books (Nord-Sud Verlag AG)

North-South Books

After an artist sells his favorite painting of a bird, the bird becomes so homesick he flies out of the picture and sets off to find his creator.

The Painter and the Bird. (English and German Edition)

Children's Books

Addison-Wesley

A big lift-the-flaps book full of surprises. 
 Rabbit has come to Frog's house but where is Frog? He's hearing noises, but everywhere he looks, Frog is not there. Who is making the noise? Lift the flaps to discover Frog's animal friends hiding, but unable to keep quiet. Wait... here is Frog! He's hiding in the bed! 
 Max Velthuijs' trademark bright colors and simple lines create animals with a surprising amount of personality, including Frog, his most famous creation. Made for the earliest readers, Where Is Frog? will delight again and again.

Where is Frog?

Animals

Firefly Books

Despite all of his hard work, no one comes to Crocodile's art studio, until one day Elephant drops by--a visit that inspires Crocodile to even greater artistic heights. By the author of Frog in Love.

Crocodile's Masterpiece

Literature & Fiction

Farrar. Straus & Giroux

Frog is head-over-heels in love with Duck but, too shy to tell her so, he paints her a picture, sends her flowers, and jumps the high jump to demonstrate his affection

Frog in Love

When Frog finds a blackbird lying still on the ground, he and his friends bury it, and later they hear the song of another blackbird as they play

Frog and the Birdsong

Activities, Crafts & Games

Driven to distraction by Crocodile, an aspiring violinist, and his practicing, Elephant seeks revenge by taking up the trumpet, and the two neighbors soon find themselves embroiled in a war of noise

Elephant and Crocodile

Frog is head-over-heels in love with Duck but, too shy to tell her so, he paints her a picture, sends her flowers, and jumps the high jump to demonstrate his affection

Frog "is astonished, one morning, to find the world white and the river frozen. Though Duck tries to teach him to skate and Hare lauds the virtues of jogging, Frog continues to shiver. Still, his sympathetic friends build Frog a fire, tuck him into bed, and ply him with hot soup; and he does make it through to spring. The simple, gracefully told story is nicely extended in the award-winning Dutch artist's beautifully designed compositions....Charming."--Kirkus Reviews.

Frog in Winter

Harpercollins

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The Little Boy and the Big Fish

The Little Boy and the Big Fish

The Painter and the Bird. (English and German Edition)

Where is Frog?

Crocodile's Masterpiece

Frog in Love

Frog and the Birdsong

Elephant and Crocodile

Frog in Love

Frog in Winter