"Max the Champion is emphatically not about disability. It’s about a boy who loves sport, his friends and school. A boy with a vivid imagination…From the moment he wakes up, sport is on his mind. As we follow him through his day, the bouncy illustrations show us Max’s parallel imaginative life. As he dives into his cereal, Max imagines participating in a diving competition, cycling to school is the chance to dream of a bobsleigh race, handwriting practice turns into javelin practice… there is no limit to Max’s imagination. Throughout the story, we are shown a diverse cast of characters. From people signing, a guide dog user to, a judge with a foreshortened arm, and a crowd member who has Cherubism and another who is oxygen dependent. Even among Max’s classmates we can see a child with Down Syndrome, one with an eye patch, another wears a leg orthotic... and Max’s best friend is a wheelchair user. We even discover part way through the book that Max wears a hearing aid and uses an asthma inhaler. Even Max’s dream sequences are inclusive, with adaptive skiing and cycling equipment imagine – equipment which we’re much more familiar with following the 2012 Paralympic Games. "