Max's Birthday

Max and Ruby

by Rosemary Wells

These irresistible Max & Ruby board books will introduce the youngest readers to the beloved bunny pair, who star in their own show on Nick Jr. and Noggin.

In  Max's Birthday , the siblings celebrate Max's special day!

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction

12 pages, Board Book

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Rosemary Wells is an American writer and illustrator of children's books. She often uses animal characters to address real human issues. Some of her most well-known characters are Max & Ruby and Timothy from Timothy Goes To School (both were later adapted into Canadian-animated preschool television series, the former’s airing on Nickelodeon (part of the Nick Jr. block) and the latter’s as part of PBS Kids on PBS).

Reviews

[elissa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Whenever a book makes it in to the real world of everyday living, there's got to be something to it. "Around and around the lobster went," is something that my whole family knows very well. Its breakout in to the real world came about at the playground, with a toddler who had a red coat, and who liked to run around a particular rock. Our boardbook version has been practically loved to death, but not quite!

[Lara · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Max and Ruby. So bunchy and cute! This was a favorite from when I was younger. Our younger cousins were the right age at the time for the Max and Ruby TV show, and really reminded us of Max in this story. In fact "Again says Max" is a family quote, and used often!

As a board book, there's very little text, so when reading it for storytime, I did fill it out a little. Still, plenty of opportunity for emphatic exclamations from Max, though. For a one-on-one read, you could add as much or as little as you wanted, depending on your reader's age. We read it as part of a storytime on birthdays.

[Sarah · Rating 2 out of 5]

Max gets a toy that he doesn't like at first for his birthday. Ruby tries to help him out, and the result is Max ends up liking the toy.

[Meredith · Rating 3 out of 5]

Max receives a toy wind-up lobster as a birthday present.

This is the origin story for how Max got his toy lobster.

[jacky · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as some of the others. Max gets the lobster as a birthday present, and other than that it isn't really about birthdays at all, which was a disappointment. (With Natalie's birthday only a couple weeks away I am looking for stories about birthdays). I do like the lobster toy which appears in many of the Max and Ruby stories, and it is cute that he wants to be chased again, but its just not as nice a story as some of the others.

[Sonya Feher · Rating 4 out of 5]

We much prefer the original version in which Max gets a dragon instead of a lobster, but both are funny. Running away from and simultaneously wanting to play with his birthday toy, Max is knocked over, then says, "Again." So does our son as he asks us to read this book over and over.

[June · Rating 4 out of 5]

My usual picture book did not arrive in time for my birthday lap time program. I checked to see what young birthday books were in and decided this would be the best despite it's small format. Not sure any babies got it, but the adults seemed to appreciate it.

[babyhippoface · Rating 4 out of 5]

Terrific board book. Short on words but funfunfun.

[Amy Phelps · Rating 3 out of 5]

ok