Max & Ruby and Twin Trouble

Hardback

Main Details

Title Max & Ruby and Twin Trouble
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Rosemary Wells
Illustrated by Rosemary Wells
SeriesA Max and Ruby Adventure
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:32
Dimensions(mm): Height 254,Width 254
ISBN/Barcode 9781534443655
Audience
Children / Juvenile
Illustrations f-c jkt (fx: spot gloss, emboss)+int. ill. (uncoated); reflective

Publishing Details

Publisher Simon & Schuster
Imprint Paula Wiseman Books
Publication Date 1 October 2019
Publication Country United States

Description

"Double trouble finds comic relief." -Kirkus Reviews From beloved author-illustrator Rosemary Wells comes a brand-new story about the inimitable brother and sister Max and Ruby. Max and Ruby's family is expanding and soon enough nobody will be getting any sleep! Max and Ruby are in for a big surprise. Mama has a baby in her tummy and soon the family will be bigger and better. Luckily Ruby knows all about babies: what they eat, how to bathe them, and where they come from. Ruby tells Max all about it. Soon no one will be getting any sleep, but Max has an idea on how to help! Max and Ruby have their own TV show on Nick Jr.!

Author Biography

Rosemary Wells is the author of more than one hundred and twenty books for children in her forty-five-year career, including more than forty about the beloved bunnies, Max and Ruby, who star in their own television show on Nick Jr. She lives in New England. Visit her online at RosemaryWells.com.

Reviews

Max and Ruby's sibling skills are put to the test with the arrival of twins.Know-it-all Ruby thinks she's an expert on babies, especially now that her mother is pregnant. She tries to explain to her little brother where babies come from, but mischievous Max knows they come from taxis, as that's how their cousins arrived. Not to be outdone, Ruby uses her Hannah the Howler doll(an extremely creepy, wide-eyed white human) to show Max how to care for babies. After pressing a button that makes the doll cry, Ruby demonstrates how to feed, diaper, bathe, and put Hannah to bed. But Max considers their efforts finished only when he wakes Hannah up with a final push of her button. Wells' signature illustrations raise the excitement-and humor-when Mama and Papa bring home not one, but two babies (by taxi, of course!). Piles of laundry and a flurry of adults carrying babies to and fro, day and night realistically depict life with newborn twins. All seems well, albeit busy, until the day nothing makes the babies happy. Not changing their diapers, giving them a bath, or winding up their Vibra-Chairs. Then Max remembers Hannah! Her wailing makes the twins' crying turn to giggles and, finally, sleep. Youngsters expecting one or more additions to their own families will find warmth and wit here to ease the transition.Double trouble finds comic relief. (Picture book. 4-8) -- Kirkus Reviews * July 1, 2019 *