Frog Prince Lifting a Ball onto a Well
A cheerful crowned frog heaves a striped ball up to the edge of an old well, ready to hand it back.
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A Crowned Frog Returning the Ball at the Well
A smiling frog wearing a small three-pointed crown stands on his long back legs and pushes a large striped ball onto the rim of a round well. The well is built from rectangular stone blocks, and two broad leaves with clear veins grow at its base. The frog has big round eyes, a wide happy mouth, spots along his side and round pads on the tips of his fingers and toes. Bold outlines surround every part, so the frog, the ball and the stones form generous spaces for crayons, markers or colored pencils.
From the Grimm Tale to Real Frogs
The Frog King, or Iron Henry opens the collection of Children's and Household Tales that Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm first published in 1812. In it, a princess loses her golden ball in a deep well, and a frog fetches it after she promises to be his companion. In the Grimm version the spell breaks when she angrily throws the frog against a wall; the famous kiss appeared only in later retellings.
Real frogs are just as surprising. They do not drink with their mouths but absorb water through their skin, especially a thin patch on the belly and thighs. Tree frogs climb smooth leaves with sticky round toe pads much like the ones drawn here, and every frog begins life as a tadpole that breathes with gills.
Natural Colors of the Scene
- Frog skin: leaf green or olive with darker green spots along the back and sides
- Throat and belly: pale yellow or creamy white
- Crown: shiny gold, with the round tips in a deeper gold
- Ball: golden yellow like the ball in the old tale, or red and white stripes
- Well stones: soft grey and sandy beige, with darker lines between the blocks
- Leaves: deep green with lighter green veins