The Adventures of Max and Pinky: Best Buds

by Maxwell Eaton III

Overview

For Max and Pinky every Saturday is Adventure Day. Today is Saturday, but where is Pinky? Has he gotten lost or carried away by bunnies—or is he just off somewhere stuffing himself with marshmallows? Watch Max dive into mud, question a polar bear, and be dissed by a horse named Chuck. Nothing will stop him from finding his pink pal—because a guy will do anything for his best bud!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780375985010
Publisher:	Random House Children's Books
Publication date:	04/20/2011
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	32
File size:	6 MB
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

Initial inspiration for this story came from a little book Maxwell Eaton III created for an elementary school Spanish class. Denied a pet goat in his
childhood, Maxwell intends to incorporate one into future Max and Pinky adventures. Look for Superheroes, soaring into bookstores this fall.

Maxwell Eaton III lives in Saranac Lake, New York.

Editorial Reviews

Eaton constructs a warm affirmation of budship featuring a boy, a piglet, lots of marshmallows and not much else. Though Max and marshmallow-mad Pinky do occasionally go off in different directions, Saturday is always Adventure Day. One Saturday, when Pinky doesn't show, a worried Max goes off to track him down. Fretting that Pinky might have been kidnapped by bunnies or some other terrible mischance, Max goes from mud hole to red barn-until a passing polar bear's big, square, white rear end provides a vital mental association. Accompanying simply drawn pictures of a toddler-like pair, the text runs to just a line or single phrase at a time, sometimes in dialogue balloons. Fans of Janet Morgan Stoeke's similarly terse, comic Minerva Louise tales will enjoy the sly humor, and be pleased to see the two buddies happily reunited at the end. (Picture book. 5-7)

Kirkus Reviews