Max's Words

Max's Words by Kate Banks was the 2008-2009 One picture book, one community selection for Broward County Public Schools. This delightful story tells the tale of of young boy, Max, who feels left out because his brothers all collect something. Max decides to collect words and eventually has enough

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words not only to trade for stamps and coins with his brothers, but also to create a story.

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Max's words is a great picture book! The pictures actually could tell the story if there was no words. In the beginning of the book Max admired what his brothers Benjamin and Karl collected. Benjamin collects stamps and Karl collects coins. Max asked his brohters if he could have a stamp and a coin

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and they said no. Max decided to collect something of his own, so he choose's words. He uses the words to make sentences. His brothers join in and help him. This book shows how to share and how the brother's are learning something togather. This is a great book to read when you want to teach being kind to each other and compromise.

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When his brothers won't share their stamp and coin collections, Max starts a rather unusual collection of his own: words clipped from magazines and newspapers, then creatively recombined into stories. With its deft interplay of words and pictures, this book celebrates the magic of language and-best

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of all-out-of-the-box thinking.

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Max has a brother who collects stamps and a brother who collects coins. Max wants a coin or a stamp, but his brothers won't share. So Max decides to start collecting something too-- words! He collects big and small words, new and favorite words, until he has piles and piles. He finds he can put the

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words together to mean something and then rearrange them to mean something else. He starts to string together a story, and his brothers are enticed to join the fun-- and even agree to do a little trading. The illustrations are fantastic and interact with the text in creative ways.

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This book would work very well as a read aloud and to use in connection with a vocabulary lesson or writing sentences. (It would work well with a lesson on sharing, too.)

Students will enjoy hearing the story read aloud and may even be inspired to create their own word collections. Kulikov's

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excellent illustrations are designed around the stories that Max creates with his word collection. This will allow young readers to find clues to help them with the harder words.

In addition to showing how to create sentences using a variety of words, the story also illustrates the value of working together. In the beginning Max's brothers refuse to share their collections with him, but once they see how cool his word collection is that want words, too. Max agrees to share, if they share.

This is a good edition to any elementary classroom or school library.

Recommended for Pre-school to 3rd Grade

Mrs. Archer's Rating: 5 of 5!

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This book is an adorable story that can show the power of words. Three brothers are playing together and one collects coins, one collects stamps and one brother collects WORDS! This story is illustrated in a way that makes the words on the page stand out to the reader. It also shows the importance

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of putting words together to form sentences! I definitely recommend this book to a class that is starting to put different types of words together.

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Max wanted to collect something like his brothers but he did not know what. He came up with the idea to collect words. He began cutting out words from magazines and newspapers. His collection started getting bigger and bigger. When max put his words together he made sentences. Then he realized when

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he gets some more words he will be able to make a story! He began making his story and his brothers joined in. His brothers had so much fun making a story they asked to make another one. Max told them you have to trade me for some words. This a great book to show kids how important it is to pay attention to new words. Many words are what makes good writing.

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The book starts out as Max feels a little left out because his brothers collect traditional things like stamps and coins. Max decides to collect words. The words look like they're clipped from magazines and newspapers. Eventually he has enough words for a story. The book then becomes a story within

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a story. The brothers join in on the fun! The illustrations present interesting perspectives from different angles. Some of the pictures take on the characteristics of shape poems. This would be a great book to inspire writing.

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Max wants to be a collector like his brother, so he collects words! He cuts words from all texts and styles to start his collection. Soon his pile is so big and he realizes the worth of what a pile of words can do! This is a great read for all ages, but I believe early readers and writers would be

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inspired by Max.

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This is a beautiful story in both concept and execution. The book follows a boy who wants to start a collection like his older brothers, so he chooses to collect words. He starts of small and the collection soon grows until he has thousands and thousands of words. Max then realizes he can connect

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these words in millions of different ways to make sentences and stories. Banks uses a variety of beautiful fonts for each word, making this an entertaining read. It also encourages a love for words and an excitement for expanding vocabulary. Max's fascination for words becomes contagious to his brothers, as it does for the reader.

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Max's brothers have collections but won't share their coins or stamps with him. So Max decides to make himself his own collection, of words! As his collection grows so does the interest of his brothers.

Loved the story and the illustrations.