Books by Max Velthuijs
Frog in Love
When his friends help him discover that the funny feeling he has is love, Frog, afraid to speak to the object of his affection, Duck, leaves gifts for her instead. 35,000 first printing.
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The Kind-hearted Monster
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.
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The Little Boy and the Big Fish (1)
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
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