Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe

by Kin Platt

Book Overview

Featuring a perennially popular I Can Read character first introduced in 1965, Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe is a humorous adventure that will delight beginning readers. Jake the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060099186
• ISBN13: 9780060099183
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

good story

My eight yr old has been struggling with reading. This held her attention to where she read it without me.

Great book...great series!

I highly recommend this series of books for parents looking for enjoyable books for their children. My two boys love this series and read the books constantly. It is rare to find books that keep them wanting more. This series has done it! Thanks!

A pair of keepers

In 1965, Kin Platt's "Big Max," illustrated by Robert Lopshire, was published. It was a simple text, happily illustrated, the type of book a child will enjoy having read again and again. Four decades later "Big Max and the Mystery of the Missing Giraffe," illustrated by Lynne Cravath sees poshumous print. Oh, the titles are similar enough. Switch the elephant for the giraffe. Happily, Big Max still travels by umbrella, keeps his clues guarded, and saves the day without accepting pay. Perhaps he is independently wealthy. Anyhow, Cravath's illustrations, while her own, nicely complement those of Lopshire. Both titles deserve a place in school, public, and personal libraries. Both are keepers.