Reviews for Max's Words

The average rating for Max's Words based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-01-12 00:00:00 tatsunari yamada I wasn't totally happy with the frame narrative of the older brothers and their collecting, and how the author seems to disparage them -- it doesn't seem necessary to put down one hobby to make another look better -- but otherwise this story of a small boy who begins to play with words was quote good, especially for something that is clearly intended to be of educational value. My favorite aspect of the story was the part where the brothers collaborate on making a story from the piles of words. My favorite aspect of the illustrations was how Kulikov draws the words in ways that reflect their meanings.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-11-10 00:00:00 John Downs Banks illustrations are fabulous! I loved this book, my kids and I have already read it twice and each time we have found something that we missed when we read it the first time. The illustrations jump out at you and defiantly caught our eye. I love when the words become the pictures it really helped my children associate words with the picture if they were not familiar with them. Max stood out with his red, spiky hair right at the beginning of this book. On the first page he was on the side of the table all by himself. He continued throughout the book, being on every page! We also enjoyed the detailed illustrations words, piles of words and finally the knee deep words. One thing I noticed was that the magazine he was cutting his words out of was a Book Review Magazine!  The text was eye catching also. Some of the text was cut out of magazines with different styles of print. Some of the text was incorporated into the actual word. (Crocodile, Alligator) Ages 4-10 Writing ~ This is a great book to teach children the power of words and storytelling. We could learn new words and make up our own story but cutting words out of magazines. L.A. ~ practice word wall words We can also talk about collecting items.