The Horn Book Guide

PICTURE BOOKS

Banks, Kate

Max's Dragon

32 pp. | Farrar/Foster | March, 2008 | Trade ISBN 978-0-374-39921-4 $16.95

(2) K-3 Illustrated by Boris Kulikov. Max (Max's Words) collects rhymes: "My dragon's trying to practice flying." His older brothers, drawn into Max's imaginative play, chime in with rhymes of their own. The playful couplets will have listeners and early readers anticipating each new pair. With illustrator Kulikov, details are everything: Max's Croc shoes, the brothers' cargo shorts, and the lizard amiably tailing Max.

Reviewer: Robin L. Smith | Horn Book Magazine Issue: March, 2008