Children's Fiction Humorous Stories
Max Todd Gets the Super Fidgets
- Publisher
- Formac Publishing Company Limited
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2024
- Category
- Humorous Stories, Neurodiversity, Special Needs, Chapter Books, Imagination & Play
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459507630
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $9.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781459507555
- Publish Date
- Oct 2024
- List Price
- $16.95
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Recommended Age, Grade, and Reading Levels
- Age: 6 to 10
- Grade: 1 to 5
Description
Max Todd is the kid who can’t sit still – but for every case of the Super Fidgets, there is a game he can play to keep them under control and keep himself out of trouble.
In Max Todd Gets the Super Fidgets, Max tries to get through a day at school with the help of a rhyming game. But, when pesky Mandy Beth figures out what he’s up to, she becomes determined to trip him up.
Full colour illustrations and fun typography bring Max to life and make this book accessible to readers of all levels.
About the authors
L. M. NICODEMO is an elementary school teacher who hopes that this series will mark the beginning of a long and joyful career in writing. She lives with her family in southwestern Ontario.
Look! Look what I've done!! The words of an eight year old as he holds up the drawing of a vibrant red fire engine. Oh Graham, that's wonderful.
Really? Oh this is good. You draw a picture and you get a reaction. I could get into this! And so it began. The seed was planted, further watered by bedtime rituals of propping pillows up against his bedroom wall getting into bed to get lost in a family member's reading of The Wind in the Willows.
An unintended lesson learned through those readings that our intrepid illustrator still calls upon in his illustration work is that the viewer will take different things from the illustration and he will add elements to the illustration that may go over some heads, but others will catch them and smile. There's always something to look at.
A graduate of the illustration program at Sheridan College in Ontario, Graham thought he would stick around the big smoke and in addition to his work as a designer at Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart, he would also cultivate his Flock of Seagulls hair style and work on his dance floor moves. But alas soon follicles started to recede and shoulder pads deflated, so Graham moved back to his hometown of Ottawa, Ontario to contemplate his next career move.
It was in Ottawa that Graham began his freelance illustration and graphic design career. A career that has spawned illustrations for such publishers as Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic Canada, and Meadowside Books of the United Kingdom, as well as numerous Canadian government agencies and private design firms.
He lives in Merrickville, Ontario with a circus star family: his juggling wife, a helldriver daughter, a canine cannonball, and a fire breathing cat.
Editorial Reviews
"The book is a great beginning chapter book for young readers, and the use of large, bold fonts to exaggerate certain words and phrases ... makes it appealing to an elementary-age audience. ... the ratio of text to Graham Ross's illustrations is approximately 50:50 making Hyper to the Max a less intimidating read than many other chapter books. A fabulous addition to school and classroom libraries."
CM: Review of Materials
"The target audience will surely have no trouble relating to the storylines. The blend of fun graphics by Graham Ross, with varying sizes and designs of text in the quickly paced 96 pages, will be appealing to both beginning and reluctant readers.
The series is written by a teacher who clearly has insight into the mind of a child who feels the type of anxiety that Max does . . . these books will serve as inspiration to children facing the same difficulties with their own Super Fidgets."
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March of the Mini Beasts; Don't Disturb the Dinosaurs; The Sky Is Falling; Robots Rule the School; A Case of the Clones; Invasion of the Insects; Out of Remote Control; Down the Brain Drain; S.O.S. from Outer Space; The Revenge of Dr. von Naysayer
School Trip Squirmies
Camping Chaos
The DATA Set Collection #2 (Boxed Set)
A Case of the Clones; Invasion of the Insects; Out of Remote Control; Down the Brain Drain
