Welcome to Max and his Reading with Max Book Tour!! (Let’s have a giveaway in his honor!!)

We are delighted to host Max, a 6 year old English Labrador retriever and award-winning author!!

What?  A dog is an author?  Yes, you read correctly.  Max and his dad, Anthony, wrote Dogs Move Too!  From Max’s Point of View, a story that details how Max had to move and how he and his friends adjusted to the move.  He even won several awards for the book!

And, he’s created a coloring book!!

And now Max has written a new book and has emBARKed on a book tour that has him visiting 36 blogs in 36 days.  Woof!  That dog is hitting the road hard!

The new book is really cute and educational.  It’s called Dogs Work Too!  From Max’s Point of View and in it he tells the reader how dogs work, particularly the Leader Dogs that assist visually impaired and blind people.

Ariel and I received an advance copy of the book to read and we really enjoyed it.  She especially loved the pictures that were on every page… sweet dogs, adorable puppies, some sleeping, some playing, some just hanging out.  You might remember that we have a cute little beagle that Ariel adores.  So a book about dogs is right up her alley.

Colorful, entertaining (we got to meet CoCo!), and educational (I’m all about that!)–Dogs Work Too!  From Max’s Point of View has a lot going for it.  And it has a lot going for the group Leader Dogs For The Blind, who will receive a portion of all sales of Max’s books.  I love that part too!

Ariel also enjoyed learning about how the leader dogs are trained and was quite interested when she found out that some dogs know sign language…and she promptly sat on the floor and tried to sign Silent Night (which she learned at church at Christmastime) to her dog (who just tried to lick her!)

So, Max, welcome!  We have peanut butter biscuits for you (I promise, we didn’t let our pup get to them yet!) and are so glad to have you!  Good luck with the promotion of this great book and fantastic cause!  We’re so glad to be a part of your tour!!

And speaking of the tour, Max is giving away two $50 Visa gift cards to two followers of Max’s Pawsitively Exciting Children’s Book Blog Tour.  It’s easy to qualify.  Just follow each blog site on the tour, collecting a “Max word of the day” from each site.  At the end of the tour, put all the words together in one sentence and post that sentence correctly.  The first two posters will each win a $50 Visa gift card!  What a great giveaway!!

Today’s “Max word of the day” is “our.”

Would you like to win a “paw”tographed copy of a Max book?  We’re giving one away, as well as a copy of that cute coloring book!!  It’s easy to enter.  You must leave a comment here to qualify, telling me your favorite dog breed.  That is mandatory.

There are several optional methods to enter the giveaway.

• Follow The Tween & Me on Facebook.  Be sure to leave a comment that you’re there for the giveaway.

• Follow Read with Max on Facebook.  Leave a comment here that you are a fan.

• Post on Facebook about the giveaway, making sure to mention Max in the post.  Leave a comment here with the link.  May do once daily.

• Follow The Tween & Me on Twitter.  Leave a comment here that you’re following us.

• Follow Max on Twitter.  Leave a comment here that you’re following him.

• May be done twice daily, with at least three hours between tweets.  Tweet:  #Win awesome “paw”tographed book from @Maxs_Books and @TheTweenAndMe  http://bit.ly/hJF33m

• May be done 10 times:  leave a relevant comment on a non-giveaway post (be sure to tell me which one (s) you did!)

• Enter any other giveaway (or already entered)  (Our current giveaways are Propel Zero and National Jazz Appreciation Month–two awesome giveaways!!)

Giveaway is open to US residents 18 and older.  All entries will be verified.  Any that are not verifiable will be deleted.  Giveaway ends Monday, May 9 at 11:59 pm EST.  Winner will be notified via e-mail and will have 48 hours to reply to our e-mail.  Please add thetweenandme (at) gmail (dot) com to your address book so you don’t miss our e-mail!!