Review: Max Fernsby and the Infinite Toys

By Gerry Swallow and Peter Gaulke

Illustrations by Marta Kissi

New York: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2023. Fiction. 201 pages.

Max Fernsby is a 10-year-old kid that has a hard life. One day a bag falls on his head and Max decides that he will keep it. It turns out that it is Santa’s bag that transports toys from the North Pole for Santa when he uses it on Christmas Eve. Now Max has the power to produce any toy that he wants… just by thinking about it. Max and his two friends decide to make kids’ lives happier --all for the sweet cost of less than what they would have to buy the toys for online. Of course, this upsets the greedy businessman who has bought up all the toy stores in the city so that everyone has to buy Christmas gifts from him. And the two elves who lost the bag while on a joyride in Santa’s sleigh are worried about getting the bag back and how much trouble they will get into once they get back to the North Pole.

This is a fun new Christmas story for kids who often wish they could have any toy they wanted.

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