The Accidental Zucchini: An Unexpected Alphabet
ISBN 0-150201545-0 $6.00pb
ISBN 0-15-201020-3 $22.00 big book
In an unexpected twist on the standard alphabet book, Max links unlikely objects together turning the familiar into the funny. A young child's imagination will be stimulated to create more unusual combinations.
(Parents Prize-Parents Magazine)
Amazing & Incredible Counting Stories! A Number of Tall Tales
ISBN 0-15-200090-9 $14.00
Weird and silly tales that will draw children into counting toasters, carrots, inflatable pickles, and acrobatic accordionists. Max's bizarre humor will delight primary grade children, even if they already know how to count!
(New York Times Children's Book Review math selection)
Circles and Squares Everywhere!
ISBN 0-15-200091-7 $17.00
This book will spark a preschooler to look at the world in a new way. A very simple text points out many places to find these two shapes in Max's bold and bright cityscape.
(Best Book Award-Oppenheim Toy Portfolio)
Max's Wacky Taxi Day
ISBN 0-15-200989-2 $15.00
A delightful peek at a taxicab driver's pun-filled day. Children will giggle at Max's literal interpretations of everyday expressions and will want to create their own imaginative scenes to accompany phrases they hear daily.
(Children's Choice selection)
Miss Mabel's Table
Written by Deborah Chandra
ISBN 0-15-276712-6 $14.95
Children will want to join you in the kitchen after reading this rhyme, counting story, and pancake recipe. Max's wacky views of a chunky, colorful neighborhood inhabited by busy diverse people illustrate this delicious story.
See Them Go! Book-and-Mobile Set
ISBN 0-150201513-2 $12.95 board book/mobile
Max's brightly colored introduction to busy trucks, cars, trains, and buses with an eye-catching mobile that is easy to assemble.
(American Bookseller Pick of the Lists)
So Many Kinds of Shoes! Book-and-Mobile Set
ISBN 0-15-201512-4 $10.95 board book/mobile
Chunky galoshes, fuzzy slippers and Max's favorite, bright red sneakers, are worn by familiar family members and are featured in an easily assembled mobile.
Where Go the Boats? Play Poems of Robert Louis Stevenson
Written by Robert Louis Stevenson
ISBN 0-15-201711-9 $16.00
Max's brightly colored and modern multiethnic illustrations of four well-known poems of Robert Louis Stevenson introduce today's children to poetry that has entertained generations.
(featured in Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association holiday catalog)
The Night Before Christmas: A Visit from St. Nicholas
Written by Clement C. Moore
ISBN 0-15-201713-5 $16.00
A folk-art style wintry urban landscape dotted with Max's candy-colored buildings give this timeless poem some modern zip. A whimsical "Identification Chart: How to Recognize Santa" is a fresh idea for a solid classic. (Featured in the New York Times Children's Holiday Book Review)
My Bug: loving the Beetle in stories and art
Edited by Michael J. Rosen
ISBN 1-579-65-135-6 $19.95
More than one hundred stories, anecdotes, and reminiscences as well as illustrations, cartoons, and photographs recall America's love affair with the Volkswagon Beetle. Max's story and illustration, "Dave the Jack", celebrate the substitution of a Bug for gym weights.
I Wish I Were a Pilot
Written by Stella Blackstone
ISBN 1-84148-341-9 $15.99
There are many ways to travel, which will you choose? Max takes you aboard brightly colored planes & trains, balloons & boats, rockets & race cars through his imaginative landscapes of water, mountains and skies. Let's go!
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