Based on a Max & Ruby TV episode, this is the perfect leveled reader to help Max & Ruby fans practice their reading skills.Max wants to play pirate, but Ruby wants to have a tea party and get dressed up. When Ruby can't find her Royal Princess Ruby necklace, she turns to Pirate Max to search for her lost treasure. Playing together is always the most fun!
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).
So many books about Max and Ruby boil down to this one same problem: How can these two cute little bunnies get along? How can they play together?
In this title, Ruby wants to have a tea party and get dressed up. But -- predictably or not -- Max doesn't wish to play the same game. He wants to play pirate.
Will the two of them ever find a way to play together?
Surely it's not a spoiler to say that they (and author-and-illustrator Rosemary Wells) find a solution. A happy playtime solution.
FIVE STARS for these safe-feeling, happiness generating books. They bring hope to youngsters who have so many social skills yet to learn.
(7 year olds review) I thought Max was really funny when Ruby was asking him to put the tablecloth on and he used it for his pirate ship. I liked that he buried her jewelry for treasure.