Max Velthuijs 
Frog is Sad 

Frog is miserable, and he cannot see why. Nobody has upset him, and nothing has gone wrong particularly, but he still feels blue. Then one of his stalwart friends makes him laugh – and suddenly he realises he’s not sad anymore. He still doesn’t know why he was so sad in the first place, but it doesn’t matter. A perfect book to explore emotions and mood swings with the under 5s.

Über den Autor

Max Velthuijs was born in The Hague in 1923, and died in 2005, aged 81. He is now considered to be one of Holland’s most important creators of children’s books, alongside Dick Bruna. He won several awards, including the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Medal 2004. He worked as an illustrator of posters, adverts and films after the war and only started working on children’s books in the 1980s. He lived in The Hague with his son.