Max's Words
by Kate Banks
Illustrated by Boris Kulikov
It seems like everybody collects something... Benjamin collects stamps, and Karl is a coin collector. But when Max,
their younger brother, asks Benjamin for some stamps or Karl for some coins, his answer is a resounding NO.
Max wants to collect something too. He decides that words would be easy to collect, and so he begins to find
wonderful words in magazines and newspapers. He cuts them out and sorts them into stacks, and he even sorts them by
size: food, colors, animals. Some of his better words are those he copies from dictionaries onto pieces of paper.
Even though his brothers won't share, Max gives each of the boys some words too, and they begin to piece them
together to make stories. Boris Kulikov has illustrated the story with his great imagination as the boys place
the words all over the pages in full colored picture stories. I loved looking at these beautifully illustrated
pages, and each time, I saw something that I had missed before.
What a wonderful family time or bedtime story about sharing, language and storytelling. The kids will want to
start their own word collections and group story-making games. |
The Book |
Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
August 8, 2006 |
Hardcover |
0-374-39949-2 |
Children/Fiction - Ages 4-8 |
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The Reviewer |
Beverly J. Rowe |
Reviewed 2006 |
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