Max Explains Everything: Puppy Expert, Hardcover

In this hilarious, tongue-in-cheek guide, kid-expert Max reveals everything you need to know about getting a new puppy.

Max knows a lot about puppies. After all, he's wanted one his whole life So he's pretty much an expert. Grown-ups will warn you: Puppies are a lot of work. And they're right Your puppy will need the perfect bed (which she'll never sleep in), the perfect toys (though she prefers playing with shoes and socks), and the perfect treats (she likes those, but she'll also have whatever you're eating). Dogs aren't good listeners like kids are, and they have a lot to learn. So you might have to take her to doggy school. (Her favorite part will probably be recess.) Yup, a puppy is a big responsiblity--but also a lot of fun, a lot of cute, a lot of cuddle, and a lot of love. Full of humor, energy, and warmth, Max Explains Everything: Puppy Expert is the perfect read aloud for animal lovers everywhere.

Stacy McAnulty is the author of more than twenty books for children, including the middle grade novels The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl--which was an NPR Best Book of the Year, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year, and received three starred reviews--and The World Ends in April. She is also the author of the picture books Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years, Beautiful, Excellent Ed (an Ezra Jack Keats New Author Honor Book), and 101 Reasons Why I'm Not Taking a Bath, just to name a few. She lives in North Carolina with three kids, three dogs, and one husband.

Deborah Hocking has collaborated with Stacy McAnulty on two previous books in the Max Explains Everything series. She is also the illustrator of The Great Henry Hopendower and the nonfiction picture book Build, Beaver, Build! Life at the Longest Beaver Dam. She lives in Portland, Oregon, in a hundred-year-old cottage that she fixed up with her husband, Jay. Learn more at deborahhockingillustration.com.