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Max's Words
$16.00
Benjamin collected stamps. Karl collected coins. Max wanted to collect something, too, so he began cutting words out of magazines and newspapers. He collected short words. Long words. Words that made him feel good. Words he didn't know yet.
Benjamin and Karl laughed at him. But as Max spread his words out on the floor, a strange thing happened: They became ideas. The ideas became stories. And soon, Benjamin and Karl wanted some words, too.
The premise of this picture book skates a thin line; such a device could easily slip into being either a didactic tale or a vocabulary lesson. Max's Words, happily, avoids both snares and shares, instead, a lighthearted romp as the three boys scramble to assemble a story. Let's see ... there's a little brown worm, a blue iguana, a green crocodile, or is it a green iguana and a blue crocodile?
The joy of this book is twofold: text and art interact in capricious and witty ways. Words become pictures; pictures become words. The H in hugs is two clasped arms; a dog's tongue and tail compose a sentence. Sound strange? It works!
Kulikov's style is curious, showing round-eyed, round-headed children in sometimes unconventional perspective (often viewing a scene from ceiling level) that is nevertheless engaging. Readers will be drawn to stop and examine the illustrations on every page.
Max's droll adventure is both contemporary and timeless. The immediate audience is readers ages 4 to 8. Yet within this whimsical fable lies a deeper truth about the power of language. And that makes it a book for all ages.

Goodnight Max (Max and Ruby)
$11.99
I will buy this book as a gift for almost any child. It's so cute. It has stinky socks, sticky pajama's, gravely bed, and you can feel and smell it all! My son LOVES it.

Diesel New Generation Max Backpack,Mocha,one szie
$100.00

Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)
$7.99
Max, a genetically engineered flying teenager leads her flock (5 other flying kids and a flying dog) and protects them against some pretty bad guys. Kind of like a mother hen. They travel everywhere from Mexico to Hawaii spreading one message "pollution is bad". In this story, not only has someone polluted the environment (not just the air, but the oceans), but they want the kids to denounce the CSM (Coalition to Stop the Madness) the company they work for. In this story Max (who is still evolving and getting new skills, the most recent a secret voice and gills so she can breathe under water) finds herself falling even deeper (in love) for Fang (who is incredibly cool, and can rock some black wings). Anyway, the remaining Flock members have their various issues (one is blind but seems to see better than most; one can read minds and has developed gills; one has very bad gas as a defense mechanism but can blow up things like it is no one else; one has an eye for fashion; and another happens to be a winged dog in love. So nothing is simple for these winged kids. The only thing that is clear is that someone wants them stopped and if it means kidnapping Max's mother and keeping her on a submarine, so be it. There are "M geeks", robots, erasers, enhanced robots, danger, explosions, and tons of other stuff in this book. And while the overwhelming focus appears to be on making everyone aware of their environment, I think it was meant to just be a fun and easy young adult novel. Unfortunately, even though I knew that going in, I found myself comparing it to I think "When the Wind Blows", which I enjoyed a lot more because it seemed well thought out, different and interesting. I could definitely tell that this was for a younger audience, but to me, with just a little work, it could have been elevated to a whole other level, to make it enjoyable for various readers. I was hoping when I finished this one that I would jump in and read some of the others.....but I probably won't. Maybe after some time away from Max, I will grow to appreciate this series.