Max's Dragon Shirt (Max and Ruby (Prebound))

I knew we we’re getting a used copy but this was an old, classroom copy that has significant wear. We received an earlier edition than the version pictured - faded colors and illustrations are in an older style. Toddler loves the story anyway.

I received my order in a timely fashion and the product was exactly as described. The book has a beautiful hard cover which looks like it can withstand some harsh treatment from little hands. I purchased it for my grand-daughter's birthday, who is a Max & Ruby fan. We've already read it many times over and I'm sure she'll be requesting I read it to her again! If you aren't familiar with Max, he's a 3-year-old bunny brother to older sister Ruby. My husband doesn't always like the story lines for this pair because Max sometimes gets away with misbehaving without consequences. The Dragon Shirt story stays true to this complaint, but I noticed that Ruby contributes to the problem by leaving her brother alone instead of keeping a watchful eye over him at all times. The lesson here may be directed more at care-takers than to those in our care!

I am a huge Rosemary Wells fan, and this book is delightful as are all her books. Every child can relate to wanting a particular item as much as Max wants his dragon shirt! The pictures in this book are quite complex---full of the hustle and bustle of a busy department store, with all kinds of different folks with different expressions--my boys really enjoy trying to figure out what everyone is thinking! I like seeing Ruby try on all the dresses---some too tight, some too big and some just plain too ugly! As usual, Max in his own way beats Ruby at her own game!

Good lesson - sometimes what we want costs more than what we needed.

Wonderful story!

Max and his favorite shirt; every kid can relate to this. The hard cover makes it very easy to hold.

The thing that always gets me about Max is how Ruby takes charge only to somehow lose out to Max's ability to be "in the moment." In this story there are so many things that are well understood by a child: shopping, favorite clothes, bossy sister's, impossible brothers, changing rooms, getting lost, dragon shirts...it's all rolled into an adorable creation.Max has pants Ruby abhors, so of course she takes him and five dollars down to shop and solve the problem. But, once in the store, Well's takes us into Ruby being Ruby as she tries on several dresses "just to see how she might look" while Max nods off in the corner of the dressing room. Since I can see myself doing that to my little brother, and since I certainly was the one sent with him to solve problems like worn out pants, I was captured. She leaves to get another dress to try on as the purple one is out, he wakes and wanders off, they get lost, Ruby has to go find him still accidentally dressed in the store dress. Ruby gets clerk help, kind of a scolding over wearing that store dress, she changes. He finds a Dragon shirt, which is all he wanted and kept asking for, and is finally located getting ice cream and messy with an officer and helper and someone he mistook for Ruby and followed. So Ruby pays the $5.00 for a dirtied shirt, shuffles him back on the bus and he sort of wins all the way around.Oh that Ruby, I know her well. I've done that shuffle. My Max used to lay down on the sidewalk and just quit mid downtown visit. I cannot tell you the number of people when I was 7 or 8 in my downtown, 6 miles from home with a long walk ahead, scolding me soundly for my lame attempts to get my Max up and going to finish paying mom's bills and get whatever he wanted at the toy store under $2.00, and then get him fed and home. He'd end up with a sucker, candy, ice cream, I'd get dirty looks, while I was actually being "made" to take him for the day....I've carried that little coot up hills that would kill you-oh I get Ruby. There I'd be taking two seconds to look at a record album, out he's wander into downtown. Yes, the book really gets something I so remember from life. The worst time...and this pulled it up... was with Mom. We let him go to the corner while she tried on some dresses. A huge ambulance thing roared by. It got worse and worse until she though to say, "Where's your little brother?" We ran to see realizing someone was hit. What a long run, and there was a man hit by a car. My brother however was on the corner watching with everyone else, three years old and in about five minutes lying on the sidewalk in a tantrum he was "done" ( it all in retrospect calls into question that adult, hum) There is something of that too in the book, as we wonder why Ruby must carry so much responsibility...Great story. Full of interest for a 1st grade in U Pick It Reading Time.

I have adored the "Max" series by Rosemary Wells for quite sometime, as my three children absolutely loved all the Max books when they were younger. Ms. Wells manages to capture really great nuances on the faces of both Max and his sister Ruby, as well as presenting the most humorous situations for Max and Ruby.Max wants nothing but a dragon shirt and Ruby is insisting on buying him a much-needed pair of pants, per the instructions of their mother. Max does not give up on his beloved dragon shirt and reminds Ruby every chance he gets. Ruby gets sidetracked in the store trying on dresses and Max manages to wander in the store after dozing off and not finding Ruby in the dressing room. Max finds his coveted dragon shirt, puts it on and is "found" by two policemen in the store. Well, now the dragon shirt is covered with yummy ice cream and Ruby has no choice but to purchase the shirt for Max!The illustrations and use of color will delight any youngster, as will the antics of Ruby and Max! I love their facial expressions and even after all of these years, I still love reading these books! This was one series of book that neither I, nor my children, ever tired of reading. I find the Max and Ruby books just really classic books! My children would read them over and over again and would find them first with every library visit!Absolutely pure delight!!!