Max: Relax Max by Sally Grindley (5-Apr-2007) Paperback

Max

by Sally Grindley

Max is having to come to terms with some major changes in his life, including the prospect of having a baby brother or sister and having to move house. At school he is learning all about poetry. He, therefore, expresses his feelings about what is happening to him through a number of sometimes funny, sometimes sad poems that he sends to writer D.J. Lucas

Paperback

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

I came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.

Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.

I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.

Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.

I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!

Reviews

[José Luis · Rating 5 out of 5]

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Seguro que más de un pequeño ha pensando en algún momento en hacerse escritor, si es así seguramente se podrán ver reflejados en el protagonista de la historia, Max.

Cuando Max y D.J. Lucas comienzan su intercambio epistolar van surgiendo en la historia distintos temas, la familia (Max es huérfano de padre), el colegio (relación con otros compañeros y con los profesores), etc. Son pequeñas historias, pequeños secretos que para Max tienen mucha importancia y que van hilvanando una historia que nos permitirá conocer mejor a los dos protagonistas de la historia.

El libro, en el que no falta el humor, no deja indiferente, tiene un estilo muy ágil, y abundan los guiños que seguro que llamarán la atención de los jóvenes lectores, así los capítulos han sido sustituidos por las cartas con su correspondiente encabezado que los dos protagonistas se van enviando, aparecen palabras que no existen pero que se entienden perfectamente y al final, todo en conjunto, crea una buena historia… y un buen libro, el que D.J. Lucas querría haber escrito. ;)

[anebooks_ ane · Rating 4 out of 5]

De 8 A9 años está bien, pero para más edad se hace súper aburrido

[Ana (Lorien's version) · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.8
Luego subo mi opinión

[Carlo · Rating 3 out of 5]

para un niño está bien.

[Chloe-palmer · Rating 3 out of 5]

I know it' looks babyish but it's actually so good !

[Andrew · Rating 5 out of 5]

it was cooool!!!!:P:P<3<3:):)

[Cristy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A sweet and funny story *_*

[Amy Farley · Rating 3 out of 5]

An Awkward Read

My son and I have enjoyed these books. I read DJ's letters and he reads Max's. There were some sticky situations to explain.