Padda voel nutteloos, want hy kan nie vlieg soos Eend nie en hy het ook nie 'n talent vir goeters maak soos Rot nie. Hy wens hy kan koekbak soos Vark, of so vlot lees soos Haas. Maar dan besef Padda dat hy uniek, spesiaal en talentvol op sy eie manier is – hy is pragtig en groen, en kan beter swem en spring as enigiemand anders! Padda is padda is 'n storie vol pret en pragtige illustrasies, maar bevat ook 'n lewensles. Die storie verduidelik dat elke kind uniek is en oor sy eie talente beskik – dit maak hom nie beter of slegter as 'n ander kind nie. En almal is lief vir Padda net soos hy is! Padda leer dat dit die beste is om net homself te wees.

Padda voel vreemd. Hy het ’n versnelde hartklop, kry warm en koue gloede en wil lag en huil tegelyk. Dan besef hy: Hy is verlief op Eend! Maar daar is een probleem: Padda is groen en Eend is wit … Volgens Padda se maats is dit onmoontlik dat ’n groen padda en ’n wit eend mekaar kan liefhe. Maar Padda bewys aan sy maats dat liefde geen grense het nie. Padda is verlief is 'n storie vol pret en pragtige illustrasies, met 'n belangrike lewensles vir kinders so jonk as 3.

Rot, ’n vreemdeling, slaan kamp op aan die ander kant van die rivier. Padda se maats is vies – Rot is anders as hulle. Hy hoort nie daar nie. Hulle waarsku vir Padda om weg te bly van hom af, want alle rotte is vuil, dom en grillerig. Maar Padda besluit om vir Rot beter te leer ken. En wat ’n verrassing! Rot kan lees en skryf en drie tale praat! Verder is hy altyd vrolik en hulpvaardig. Padda is baie hartseer toe Rot weer vertrek, maar Rot belowe om eendag terug te kom om ’n brug oor die rivier te bou … Padda en die vreemdeling is 'n storie vol pret en pragtige illustrasies, maar bevat ook 'n waardevolle lewensles.

Een pragtige herfsdag ontdek Padda ’n pikswart lyster wat roerloos op die grond le. Baie bekommerd wonder hy en sy vriende wat die voel makeer. Padda en die voelgesang is 'n storie vol pret en pragtige illustrasies, maar bevat ook 'n lewensles. In hierdie treffende verhaal maak die diere op ’n eenvoudige dog mooi manier met die dood kennis en besef hulle hoe ’n groot voorreg dit is om te lewe.

This popular book is now available in Sesotho! Frog feels useless because he can’t fly like Duck and he can’t make stuff like Rat. He wish he had the baking skills of Pig and Hare’s reading ability. But then he realises that he is special and talented in his own way – he is beautiful and green, and can swim and jump better than anyone else!

This popular book is now available in Zulu! Frog feels useless because he can’t fly like Duck and he can’t make stuff like Rat. He wish he had the baking skills of Pig and Hare’s reading ability. But then he realises that he is special and talented in his own way – he is beautiful and green, and can swim and jump better than anyone else!

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.

Die padda stories is vol pret en pragtige illustrasies, maar bevat ook 'n lewensles.


Padda en die Voelgesang

Padda is Padda

Padda is Verlief

Padda en die Vreemdeling

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!

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.

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 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 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

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.

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.

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.

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?