Max Velthuijs

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 colours 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, again and again.

Sammakko-klassikko jälleen saatavilla! Eräänä päivänä sammakko löytää mustarastaan, joka makaa liikkumattomana ruohikossa. Huolestuneena se pohtii ystäviensä kanssa, mikä linnulla on hätänä. Hiljalleen eläinystävykset alkavat ymmärtää, mitä kuolema merkitsee. Elämä kuitenkin jatkuu, menetyksen jälkeenkin. Kuolemasta puhuminen lapselle ei ole helppoa. Tämän lempeän tarinan johdattamana aihetta on helpompi lähestyä.

Ljagushonok Kvak ne znaet, chto s nim. Grustit on ili raduetsja? Ego brosaet to v zhar, to v kholod, a vnutri chto-to bystro-bystro stuchit: tuk-tuk-tuk-tuk! Objasnenie stol strannomu sostojaniju ljagushonka nakhodit Zajats, i okazyvaetsja, chto Kvak vljubilsja! Snachala on dazhe ne znal v kogo, a potom vspomnil: "Ja vljubilsja v miluju, krasivuju, chudesnuju beluju Utochku!" No kak rasskazat ej o svoikh chuvstvakh? I kak uznat, poljubit li ona v otvet? Maks Veltkhejs (1923-2005) - gollandskij khudozhnik i pisatel, vsemirnuju slavu kotoromu prinesla serija knizhek-kartinok pro malenkogo zeljonogo ljagushonka s bolshim vyrazitelnym rtom. Za svoj vklad v detskuju literaturu Maks Veltkhejs byl udostoen vysshej professionalnoj nagrady - mezhdunarodnoj premii imeni Khansa Kristiana Andersena. Knigi o Kvake vykhodjat segodnja na 40 jazykakh po vsemu miru, i povsjudu kritiki priznajut ikh podlinnymi shedevrami minimalizma. V nikh prostymi slovami i obrazami rasskazyvaetsja ob ochen slozhnykh i vazhnykh dlja kazhdogo cheloveka veschakh: o poznanii bolshogo mira, o poznanii drugikh i samogo sebja. V nikh neozhidanno raskryvajutsja takie, kazalos by, sovsem ne detskie perezhivanija, kak chuvstvo glubokogo otchajanija i bezyskhodnosti, muki nerazdeljonnoj ljubvi, utrata very v sebja. Maksu Veltkhejsu udajotsja pogovorit obo vsem etom na jazyke trjokhletnego rebjonka, sokhranjaja pri etom vsju glubinu perezhivanij glavnogo geroja. Dlja detej 2-5 let. Perevodchik: Jarin Aleksandr JakovlevichKhudozhnik: Veltkhejs Maks

För de yngsta! Titta vad som finne under flikarna! Grodan vill leka men hans vänner har annat att göra. Vad är det för hemligheter de håller på med egentligen?

Max Velthuijsin lämpimän humoristisissa eläintarinoissa käsitellään tärkeitä teemoja: tunteita, pelkoja, erilaisuutta, suvaitsevaisuutta ja toisten kunnioittamista. Sammakolla on välillä hiki ja pian taas kylmä, ja sen sydän jyskyttää oudosti. Onkohan se tullut kipeäksi? Jänis keksii, että sammakko on lemmenkipeä. Kehen se mahtaa olla rakastunut?

Max Velthuijsin lämpimän humoristisissa eläintarinoissa käsitellään tärkeitä teemoja: tunteita, pelkoja, erilaisuutta, suvaitsevaisuutta ja toisten kunnioittamista. Sammakko tahtoo lähteä rotan kanssa avaraan maailmaan seikkailuja etsimään. Mutta avara maailma on kaukana ja koti-ikävä tekee askeleista kovin raskaita…

rodan är en hjälte för små och stora läsare i hela världen. Nu fyller han 25 år och det firar vi med att ge ut en samlingsvolym med sju älskade berättelser, varav en helt ny, om Grodan och hans vänner. Grodan och Haren, Grodan och den stora dagen, Grodan och Råttan, Grodan blir glad, Räkna med Grodan, Grodan hittar en vän samt Grodans vårkalas. "Max Velthuijs gröna Groda är en av barnboksvärldens största humanister." Södermanlands Nyheter

What do you do with a fire-breathing monster? Adore him The Monster from Halfway to Nowhere... When the people of a little town discover that the fire-breathing monster in their midst is really a kind-hearted mind mannered monster, they all have different ideas about what to do with him. But the ideas make Mervyn unhappy, until a professor has an idea that lightens everyone s mood especially Mervyn s The Monster from Halfway to Nowhere... Robbers have kidnapped Mervyn the monster by baking him cakes full of sleeping powder. They think the heist is a success. But the robbers don t know Mervyn . . . and the people from the town that s halfway to nowhere."

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

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.

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.

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 is taken by surprise when winter comes. He doesn't understand why everything is covered with white and he skids and slips on the icy pond. He is too cold to take part in any of the joyous fun that Duck is having skating or that Hare is having throwing snowballs. The animals band together to equip Frog for enjoying winter, and later they share in his rejoicing when spring arrives. 'Frog is an inspired creation - a masterpiece of graphic simplicity.' - Guardian

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 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.' - Guardian

Frosken kjenner seg så rar, han veit ikkje om han er glad eller lei seg og hjartet bankar fortare enn vanleg. Haren seier at frosken er forelska, og frosken forstår at han er forelska i anda. Da tek han til å undra på korleis han kan få vist anda at han er glad i henne.

Forventningsfull blir frosken med den eventyrlystne rotta på tur. Men frosken savner fort grisen og anda og haren, og han oppdager at den store vide verden er langt hjemmefra.

Dagen i dag er helt spesiell, det har haren sagt. Men frosken anar ikkje kvifor, så han spør vennene sine. Anda seier at det er fredag, grisen seier at det er vaskedag, og rotta seier at kvar dag er spesiell. Men det var ikkje slik haren meinte det, sikkert ikkje . Max Velthuijs er ein verdskjend, prislønt teiknar som lagar vennleg humoristiske bøker om viktige emne. Frosken og vennene hans kan du også lese om i desse bøkene:Den forelska frosken, Frosken og den framande, frosken om vinteren, Frosken er redd, Frosken er ein helt. Frosken er også hovudperson i to kartongbøker for dei aller yngste:Frosken og anda og Frosken og grisen

Frosken er lei seg. Han er på gråten, men han veit ikkje kvifor. Rotta prøver å trøyste han, men får han berre til å gråte. Til sist begynner frosken å le, og snart ler alle saman. Frosken er glad att, og ikkje minst Vesle Bjørn er storleg letta.