Bunny Party (Max and Ruby)

Ruby, Max's sister decides to give their grandma bunnie a tea party so they can spend quality time together. Ruby does not invite Max's toys to the tea party. She only invites her toys. Max then gets upset, so he replaces her toys with his toys. Ruby tries to do the math in her head but gets confused. She then counts her guest using her mathematical skills. This book is perfect for a mini mathematics lesson. I enjoyed how all the toys have different unique names to them. Rosemary Wells takes a simple story about a party and turns it into a mathematics lesson for young children. This story is in comparison to "Max cleans up" and "Max and Ruby's First Greek Myth" because she is still using animals as characters to address situations in show more every day life. This book was different than her other books because she incorporates a mathematics lesson into a story to make it fun and engaging for her younger audience. show less

I thought this book was cute. It is a story about Ruby and Max planning a birthday party for their Grandma. Ruby has the table all set up for the guests she invited but Max decides to invite his own friends. Ruby realizes that they are losing the seats that she was planning on having Max, Grandma and her sit in. Max is disguising his guests in Ruby's guests' clothes. Just a fun book and it also works a little with counting and adding.

Rosemary Wells bring backs her usual bunny characters Max and Ruby for another kid's story. The story is about their grandmother who is coming over to celebrate her birthday. Ruby and Max must set up the table for themselves, their grandmother, and 7 other guests who happen to be Ruby's dolls. During the story, Ruby makes arrangements for the 7 guest but Max secretly dresses up his own stuff animals and confuses his sister.

Wells keeps the personality for her characters intact. Max is still a mischievous little boy and Ruby is still assertive,however, in this story she is a little confused to why there are more than 7 guest showing up at the table.I like how in the pictures the illustrator illustrates Max with a mischievous smile during show more the events when he dresses up his stuff animals. I also like how the assertive Ruby is confused. The pages are simple to read with only a few words with the pictures portraying most of what the author is saying. In the end, this is a good book just like the other Bunny books by Rosemary Wells show less

Max and Ruby are having a party for their Grandma's birthday. Ruby invites almost all her stuffed animals, but leaves some of them out. Max adds three stuffed animals to the party without Ruby knowing. This book would be good to read to younger children to teach them how they shouldn't leave people out of things because they don't like them. I wouldn't read this out loud but it would be a good book for beginning readers.

This book was very cute and had a good morale. I think that it is very important to make sure that your children realize that leaving people out (or things in this case) is not very nice and that it makes people feel very sad. I would read this to a kindergarten or first grade class but I would not have them read it because some of the names can get you tongue tied.

As always, Max's wishes are ignored by Ruby and Max finds a way to fix things for himself...with help from Grandma of course, because Ruby doesn't know exactly what Grandma wants, no matter how much she thinks she does. =)

This is a cute book that implements counting of "invited guests" to Max and Ruby's suprise birthday party for their grandmother. Throughout the book, Max is trying to sneak in uninvited guests such as his ear-splitter space cadet friend. All of his "friends" have silly names that the children can get a kick out of. In the end, of course grandma is more than happy to accomodate all guests to her party.