Review

Max the Champion

By Sean Stockdale, Alexandra Strick and Ros Asquith, Frances Lincoln, hardback, 11.99.

Max is mad about sport - at home, at school, everywhere. If he's not playing it, he's dreaming about it, and becoming a champion. And today he is a real winner. He races down to breakfast, speeds off to school, helps to win a sports tournament and receives a trophy, along with his friends. Then at the sound of the school bell, he shoots out of the door and zooms home ... for some more wonderful dreams about being a champion.

This story really captures the ceaseless and pent-up energy of some young boys, who just want to run and cycle and play, then run some more. But while first and foremost a picture book about a sports-mad boy with a powerful imagination, it is also inclusive, naturally weaving into the story a cast of disabled children happily participating in sport.

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