Description Alex and his dog Max are true friends--the kind that share each other\'s excitement, comfort each other when they are sad, wait together when parents are away, and have fun wherever they are. in communications and works to promote children\'s creativit.
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About the author Claire Buchwald, the author of four children\'s picture books, including Max Talks to Me (The Gryphon Press, 2007), has a Ph.
Her art for Kate Shelley and the Midnight Express appears as an animated feature on public television\'s Reading Rainbow.
She has been a full-time illustrator of books and magazines since 1989 and teaches classes for teachers and librarians about visual language and the art of children\'s books.
Artist Karen Ritz is the illustrator of Daddy\'s Song by Leslea Newman (Henry Holt and Company, spring 2007) and forty other award-winning children\'s titles.
Buchwald, who has a Ph D in communication from the University of California, San Diego, believes that children deserve the finest of writing because they are complicated, intelligent, full of questions, and strongly connected to the powerful capacities of imagination and awe.
The author of The Great Mitzvah-Go-Round (Art Scroll, 2002), co-written with her husband Larry Bogoslaw, and The Puppet Book (Plays Inc., 1990), Buchwald is currently completing a nonfiction book on the power of imagination, reading, and pretend play in children\'s lives.
Author Claire Buchwald lives with her husband, three children, dog, and cat in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Children will want to share Max and Alex\'s adventures and friendship over and over as they read the gentle, engaging story and look at the beautiful illustrations.
Parents will appreciate the information about animal communication and the dog-child bond that they will find at the end of Max Talks to Me.
By observing and listening to his dog, by sharing good times and bad, he and Max are earning each other\'s love and devotion.
Alex is learning that every good relationship is a two-way street.
Description Alex and his dog Max are true friends--the kind that share each other\'s excitement, comfort each other when they are sad, wait together when parents are away, and have fun wherever they are
