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Behind The Scenes

Meet Max Amato, Creator of Perfect

Exclusive Interview About Max’s Inspiration Behind the Funny Picture Book

by Alana Pedalino

Author’s Thoughts

“What leads to joy and happiness is a sense of imperfection, a sense of play, of spontaneity, and allowing yourself to mess up.” —Max Amato

What’s more perfect than a book about embracing imperfections?

Max Amato, the author and illustrator of the picture book Perfect, takes viewers behind the scenes and shares how his imaginative Book of the Week came about, including:

• How the “perfectionist” Max as a child was an inspiration to creating Perfect as a message to himself and others

• What Max’s thinking process was behind designing the pencil and eraser as the story’s characters

• What Max wants kids to learn from reading his book

Watch Max’s exclusive interview video with your class to learn about how imperfection sparks creativity, and to inspire students to learn from their mistakes!

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About Max Amato

Max Amato is a designer, illustrator, children’s book author, and struggling perfectionist from Silver Spring, Maryland. He studied graphic and interactive design at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and he currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. When he is not drawing, you can find Max doing all the same things he used to do when he was 11: playing soccer, basketball, and guitar. Visit him online at maxamato.com.

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Perfect
by Max Amato
Humorous Picture Book About Being Perfectly Imperfect

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A Note from Judy

Making new friends can be as easy as sharing a cookie! The Book of the Week–If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff, illustrated by Felicia Bond—shows all the possibilities of befriending a mouse that overstays its welcome.

This week, have fun guessing what the Book Boys will ask for next; watch an exclusive interview with the book’s author, Laura Numeroff, in Behind the Scenes; learn how a teacher uses If You Give a Mouse a Cookie to engage her students in Book Talks; and download a free sequencing activity in this week’s Cooked Up from a Book!

We hope this tale of a boy and a mouse will make your students laugh and learn about the importance of setting boundaries and sharing.

Judy Newman

President and Reader in Chief
Scholastic Book Clubs

Book of the Week

If You Give A Mouse a Cookie

by Laura Numeroff, illustrated
by Felicia Bond
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