If you have a young child at home you can be sure they’ll love this new delightfully illustrated children’s picture book called Max Attacks.
Max is a cat. He attacks. From socks to strings to many a fish, attacking, for Max, is most de-lish. But how many of these things can he actually catch? Well, let’s just say it’s no even match.
Fish and birds and lizards and socks…is there anything Max won’t attack? Watch your ankles and find out in this clever, rhyming book about this very naughty kitty cat.
The fun is in watching Max give in to every impulse to wreak havoc—and in the final triumph of the goldfish he plagues throughout.
We were delighted to offer 5 copies of Max Attacks for five lucky Purrington Post readers who won!
* Contest Now Closed
This contest ended on July 25th, 2019 and was available to U.S. residents only. To enter you simply needed to submit a comment in our “Leave a Reply” section at the bottom of this page saying:
My cat’s name is [insert your cat’s name] and the naughtiest thing he/she does is [insert your cat’s naughty trait]
The 5 winners were chosen by the author and illustrator from all the correctly submitted entries, and contacted by email.
Our foster kitties (below) were fascinated by Max’s antics!
Book Details
Published: June 11, 2019
Author: Kathi Appelt
Illustrator: Penelope Dullaghan
Pages: 40
Ages: 4-8 / Grades Pre-K to 3
Available on Amazon for purchase here.
My Cat’s name is OREO and the naughtiest thing she does is Only to Still be a
Part-Feral Kitty, which is Beyond Her Control,
BUT, WE keep Trying cause we Love Her.
My cat’s name is Mira and the naughtiest thing she does is initiate fights with her little sister.
My cat’s name is Domino and the naughtiest thing he does is tease the dogs!
My cat’s name is Sassy and the naughtiest thing that she does is to open ALL of the drawers in the kitchen and bathroom. She loves to take naps in them. I adopted her several months ago. She was tiny and had ridden over 100 miles on the motor of a car on a hot day. She was extremely dehydrated and her feet were badly burned. She has completely recovered and she is living up to her name!
My cats names are Sally Ashes and Bailey Ditty, and the naughtiest thing we have done is break my collectible Avon plates .
My cat’s name is Stanley and the naughtiest thing he does is escape the house while I water plants then proceed to evade capture by galloping through the neighbors’ yards
My cat’s name is Wilco and the naughtiest thing he does is sniff our laundry basket.
My cat’s name is Gem and the naughtiest thing she does is pretend she is a plant! She constantly climbs into my potted plants just to lay on them. She squishes them and a lot of potting soil ends up on the floor or tables. Luckily, she is not using them as a litter box.
My cat’s name is Daisy and the naughtiest thing she does is that she brings in mice and lets them go in the house and forgets about them. She also brings mice in eats them except for the head and leaves that in the living room.
My other cat’s name is Sami and the naughtiest thing he does is accompany me to the bathroom and before I am done, sticks his head in the toilet and waits for me flush.
My cat’s name is Barnaby Carson Barncat, and the naughtiest thing he does is stalk the 3 girls, smack at their swishy behinds, and grab them by the neck for attention. If that doesn’t work, he will drag the poor old cross-eyed weasel ball toy around the house while loudly doing his best kitty Tarzan calls with his mouth stuffed full of weasel tail.
My cats name is Keeka-Choo and the naughtiest thing he does is climb into the cupboards and “do the dishes” for me. He accomplishes this by pushing each dish until it crashes and breaks into the floor below. I have mostly plastic dishes now. He also “cleans off” the counters, bureaus, tables and any other surface he considers messy. He is very neat…
My cat’s name is Penny & the naughtiest thing she does is claw the rugs.
My cat’s name is B.W. Huckleberry and the naughtiest thing he/she does is attack some of my other cats.
My cat’s name is Raider and the naughtiest thing he does is goes outside hunts for lizards…. That’s not so bad… But he brings them back in the house to play with them!
My cat’s name is Kitty and the naughtiest thing she does is occasionally knock things off of the tops of dressers!
My cat’s name is smudge and the naughtiest thing he/she does is go up on the counter and eat any food that is on there!
My cat’s name is Larry and the naughtiest thing he does is knock his food bowls to the floor to let us know he’s hungry even at 2 am! We keep the bowls up away from the dogs.
My cat’s name is Elvis, and the naughtiest thing he does is to chase Baby Su and give Tarifa unwanted attention! (We all love him, though)
My cat’s name is Sunshine and the naughtiest thing she does is knock items off the counter for attention.
My cat’s name is Gwen and the naughtiest thing she does is runs the rail on our back deck which is about 20′ off the ground. She’s 19 years old and has been doing this since she was a kitten. It makes me crazy because I worry that she’ll fall – even though she’s never even slipped.
The naughtiest thing Bubba and Little One do is sit in the dryer on the wet clothes.
We have four cats. Our first cat is Winston and the naughtiest thing he has ever done is lick his brother Cooper’s eyes until cooper’s eyes are watery. Our second cat is Cooper and the naughtiest thing he has ever done is poop in our bathtub. Our third cat is Kingston and the naughtiest thing he has ever done is to wake up his pappy a few times a night. Our fourth cat is Alexander and the naughtiest thing he has ever done is poop to the side of the litter box.
My cat’s name is Isabella and the naughtiest thing she does is to swat my lip balm off the counter and play with it until it gets stuck underneath the bureau just. beyond. her. reach.
My cat’s name is Cinnamon Girl and she is a rescue. She was only a year old when I adopted her and we’ve spent the past 8+ years together in perfect harmony…well, almost perfect! My sweet, beautiful ginger girl is mellow, for the most part and is quite friendly with everyone that she gets to know. But, the naughtiest thing that she does is something she only does when she wants my full and complete attention
OOPS! I didn’t mean to end there—the naughtiest thing that Cinnamon Girl does is she scratches on my FAVORITE painting—and ONLY on that particular painting because she seems to know that it is my favorite and, of course, it will distract me from whatever I’m doing, and turn my attention to me! I suppose that it is true that bad attention is better than no attention! And, she knows how much her mommy loves her and knows I will immediately give her all of the attention she wants!
My cat’s name is Sparkle and the naughtiest thing she does is jump into the turtle tank
My cat’s name is Max (yes really) and the naughtiest thing he does is wake me up at 4:30 am every morning by climbing all over the bedroom furniture and knocking things down because he wants some wet food. And while I am getting it for him, if I am not moving fast enough, he bites my knees. Seriously, who runs MY household?!
My cat’s name is Gizmo and the naughtiest thing he does is eat fat cakes.
I have a few bratty cats. Ringo will knock anything breakable to the ground just to watch it shatter. Squishy likes to climb in the tortoise tank and hang out and tends to get trapped in the closet a lot.
My cat’s name is Calvin and the naughtiest thing he does is attack my feet and clothes every morning when I’m trying to get dressed!
My cat’s name is Mr. Six Toes and the naughtiest thing he does is bite toes!
My cat’s name is Sylvester and the naughtiest things he ever did were climbing on top of a bookcase to knock a nature scene picture off the wall, chewing the television cord and turning on the radio very loudly for attention. He is our bottle fed rescue baby and despite a quirky personality, he is very sweet once he gets to know you!
My cat’s name is Harley the naughtiest thing she does is destroy her sisters toys. i will get a new toy for her sister and Harley will take it, hide it and then destroy it.
My Cats name is Saphire. We had a house fire we she got out but we have not been able to find her. Hope she found a new home
My cat’s name is BB-8 and the naughtiest thing she does is jump on my husband’s chest while he’s standing, then start cleaning his beard!
My cat’s name is Wilson, and the naughtiest thing he does is hork very very early in the morning so that I’ll get up to feed him (it works every time).
My cat’s name is LaDiva and the naughtiest thing she does is poop on the rug in the middle of the bedroom hallway so that each of us steps in it as we get up and stagger to the bathroom!
My cat’s name is Pinky and the naughtiest thing she does is get my dogs barking at her.
My cat’s name is Boo Boo and the naughtiest thing he does is go full-psycho assault on the first set of feet he sees when the mood strikes him
My cat’s name is Bolt and the naughtiest thing he does is “drive-bys” across my pillows and head when he’s hungry. My other two, Echo and Gizmo, do it too. But only one each time. I’m pretty sure they play their own cat version of rock-paper-scissors, like claws-beans-teefs to see who will be doing the drive-by (pounce-by?).
My cat’s name is Trixie, and the naughtiest thing she does is poke her little white paw into my cup of coffee and walk around the counter making paw-prints! =^.^=
My cat’s name is Eevee and the naughtiest thing she does is she puts her cat toys in her water bowl. Her catnip stuffed pickle, pipe cleaners, and plastic sticks.
My cat’s name is Sherlock and the naughtiest thing he does is push everything off the bathroom counter when he is hungry.
My cat’s name is Nemo and the naughtiest thing he does is chase the dog relentlessly.
My cat’s name is Bob and the naughtiest thing he does is to steal all my hair bands, socks, and spools of sewing thread and hide them behind the sofa!
My cat’s names are Smoky and Shyla naughtiest thing they do is go down the steps and off the back deck when they are supposed to stay on the deck.
Clydia D.
My cat’s name is Gray Kitty, and the naughtiest thing she does is sit in the middle of the driveway when she sees we’re about to back out in the car.
My cat’s name is Moonshine and the naughtiest thing she does is bully her kitty sisters and chews wires.
My cat’s name is Oliver and the naughtiest thing he does is hide under the sofa and wait for the dog to walk by. He doesn’t attack the dog just jumps out and scares him to death.
My cat’s name is Mango and the naughtiest thing she does is go through the window blinds, bend them and then get stuck. She ends up hanging there not being able to go either way.
My cat’s name is Mary Jo and the naughtiest thing she does is meowing in her loudest voice possible at 4 am to wake me up. But the rest of the day, she only uses a silent meow to speak.
My cat’s name is Magic and the naughtiest thing he does is bring live mice into my bedroom late at night.
My cat;s name is Jake and the naughtiest thing he does is bang on the bedroom blinds at 4:45 am!!!
My cat’s name is Drazel and the naughtiest thing he has done was when he was much younger (he just turned 16), he would jump up on the counter next to the kitchen sink . If my glass cups were drying on the counter, he’d meow 2xs… and if I didn’t move them, he would stare at me, while swatting the cups until they fell off the counter and broke. I have lost countless beer glasses this way. LOL. His arthritic back leg keeps him from doing too much jumping these days, but up until about 3 years ago, I had to hand dry all my cups or suffer the wrath of DRAZ!!!
We are cat lovers and the kids would love max attacks!
My cat’s name is Herb and the naughtiest thing he does is steal jewelry and knick knacks and put them in his corner.
My cat’s name is Yoshi and the naughtiest thing he does is steal food as soon as your back is turned.
My cat’s name is lLarabelle and the naughtiest thing she does is unroll the toilet paper
My cat’s name is Lily and the naughtiest thing she does is lick my eyebrows to wake me up when she wants her brekkie! MOL!
My cat’s name is CC and the naughtiest thing he does is pee in our plants
My cats name is Kit Kat & the naughtiest thing she does is sit on the big rock under the bird feeders like she’s not a 20 pound cat just waiting for someone to come for a snack, the birds are too high but she usually end up catching a chipmunk, bringing it to the fire pit and then stands and watches over it until I have to rescue it with a butterfly net only to do it again and again – so far all lives have been spared!
My cat’s name is Pantera and the naughtiest thing he does is steal socks and hoard them under our beds.
My cat’s name is Kitty and the naughtiest thing she does is poop on her own bed! I would also love to read this book to my Kinder kids to teach them silly antics of Kitty and cats in general! ^.^
My cat’s name is Jake and the naughtiest thing he does is run wildly through the house knocking everything over in his path!
My cat’s name is Cheyanne and the naughtiest thing she does is hiss and growl like she’s possessed by the devil at the sight of a dog!
My cat’s name is Harley and the naughtiest thing she does is getting into the trash in my bathroom and shredding tissues everywhere or peeing in my bed because she is upset because i was gone too long.