Title Max's Dragon Series --- Author Kate Banks Illustrator Boris Kulikov Publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 2008 First Printing Farrar, Straus and Giroux - 2008 Category Children Warnings None Main Characters Max Main Elements Dragons

Max is looking for words that rhyme. His dragon is in his wagon – or was, for now its tail has left a trail, which Max follows. He finds an umbrella on the ground— "Found, ground," he says, while his older brothers mock him for believing in dragons and sitting under an umbrella when it isn't even raining. But Max believes in possibilities—and when he can show his brothers not only a dragon in the stormy clouds but also a dinosaur, they begin to come round. When Max demonstrates the power of his rhyming words to tame the dinosaur and the dragon and make the rain come, he wins them over completely.

With amusing wordplay and beguiling illustrations, Kate Banks and Boris Kulikov celebrate language and imagination in a collaboration that is bound to be oodles of fun for everyone.

A book of pure imagination, and of learning to rhyme. I not a huge fan of the artwork, but I really enjoyed the scenes of the cloud dragon battling the dark T-Rex cloud. On the whole it was a nice book and with a little imagination, anything can happen, and you never know, you'd be surprised who you win over to your side in the end, imagination can be catching!