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My cousin, Katie, just crafted these Max and Pinky figures and sent them down to my doorstep. Notice the attention to detail. The marshmallow was created to perfect scale.

Now www.maxwelleaton.com will get you to my site along with the usual www.maxandpinky.com. More boring information to come.

Your bud,
Maxwell

Hitting the road in a few hours. The plan is to drive through the night (Ain't it a beautiful sight?). Great now I've got the Convoy song stuck in my head. Which reminds me, the other day I was in an airport and they paged Kris Kristofferson for maybe an hour. Could there me more than one?

Let's rein this back in. Anyway, driving all night from Tucson. Camping out in Missouri tomorrow night. Pushing through to Ohio the next night to stay with friends. And then it's North Country New York and good old Vermont where we do what we want (as the rhyme goes).

I'll try to post a few audio messages from the road and get you some sketches and pictures through my trip.

Your bud,
Maxwell

Gabcast! Maxwell Eaton III #2 - June 1, 2009

The Adventures of Max and Pinky: The Mystery by Maxwell Eaton III

Maxwell Eaton III kicks off his blog tour at Seven Impossible Things Before Breakfast tomorrow. He’ll be here for a fantastic guest post on Wednesday, but before all of the excitement commences, I want to introduce you to Max and Pinky through their newest adventure, The Adventures of Max and Pinky: The Mystery.

Max and his friend, Pinky, who happens to be a pig, decide to paint the barn outside their house red. When they wake up the next morning, the barn is Pepto Bismol pink. They repaint it red and stay up all night to guard it only to see it repainted the next day. They set about trying to discover who keeps painting the barn and even set a trap. Young readers will be delighted to discover who the culprit is.

Along with the very cute story are vibrant and equally cute comic-like illustrations that kids will love. They’ll get a few giggles out of the dialog bubbles above the characters’ heads and the elaborate trap that involves a bowling ball, a frog, a chicken, and a duck. The text is simple and sparse enough for a beginning reader to read with little difficulty. Even very young children will enjoy looking at and identifying the different farm animals in the book. This, along with Max and Pinky’s other two adventures, The Adventures of Max and Pinky: Best Buds and The Adventures of Max and Pinky: Superheroes would make a perfect gift for younger readers.



What Other Bloggers Are Saying:

Menasha Kids: "Eaton excels at writing books with few words and lots of laughs. His characters say so much with a simple facial expression. This is simplicity at its best. " (read more...)

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More info:

• Reading level: Ages 4-8
  
• Hardcover: 32 pages
• Publisher: Knopf Books for Young Readers (October 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375838074
• ISBN-13: 978-0375838071
• Source: Review copy from publisher
  

Hey you!

I've been conspicuously absent for the last few weeks. Very busy with work work work and no time for the blog blog blog.

Spent Halloween weekend up in San Francisco seeing friends, one of whom went as Pinky. The integrity of good children's literature was seriously compromised.

Please ignore the grown-up soda.

We also saw Max and Pinky Wild Posters all over the city! They were all doing pretty well considering it poured rain for two days straight. Here I am randomly around the city completely soaked to the bone.

Finally, when I got home sleep deprived and sick of driving, I was instantly refreshed by a picture sent in by a few Max and Pinky fans. From left to right: Pinky, Max, Chuck the Horse, and a Groundhog. Thanks so much to these troopers for sending this in!

Anyway, that's what's happening these days.

Your bud,

Maxwell

Headed up to San Francisco to see some friends for the Halloween weekend. Still figuring out a costume though. Viking is always a possibility...

Be sure to check out the newest MYSTERY coloring page. It's a scene straight from the book.
You can find it and print it out right here!

Late late late! I realized that I never posted the new Drawing Drawing on maxandpinky.com during the month of April! I hope nobody had their heart set on the seagull. This was the actual April Drawing Drawing...

Here's a good one generously given to me by Ethan in Potsdam, NY...

I'm going to have to run the earring by my editor... Read the rest of this post

Hey you!

I've been notoriously absent lately, but I've got my excuses! They aren't very good, but I've got 'em.

Either way, I'm back! And if it's sketches you want then it's sketches you'll get... starting tomorrow. In the meantime, everybody's favorite awkward holiday has passed us by, and if you're in the loot bag building business then you'll appreciate this one sent to me by Vanessa at Tandem Library Books...



Obviously, the bag in the middle has scored the most empty calories. Pinky would be proud.

Anyway, sketches are back tomorrow!

Your bud,
Maxwell

Congratulations to Ken of Chesterfield, Missouri!
Ken has won the January Drawing Drawing, a rendition of Max and Pinky on a tiny desert island trying not to think about climate change! Did that only occur to me?


Thanks so much to everyone who entered. Wait, what's that you say? You're not Ken of Chesterfield, Missouri, and you still want to win a Drawing Drawing? Simply sign up to win the February Drawing! I'll be posting it within the next week or so, but go right ahead and enter now!

Best of luck!

Your bud,
Maxwell

Hey you!

Last year's more conventional entry This year's less conventional one, from 'Tis by Frank McCourt, which I'm rereading while awaiting the arrival via ILL of his Teacher Man: I walk through Woodside to the library to borrow a book I looked at the last time I was there, Sean O'Casey's I Knock at the Door. It's a book about growing up poor in Dublin and I never knew you could write about things