Children’s Book Illustrations
Robbi Muir is the author, illustrator and designer of the book series: Max the City Dog: A Day at the Beach, My Underground Zoo Adventure and The Blue Bottle Mystery
Robbi started her career as an illustrator in Vancouver, B.C. Canada, after studying Fine Arts at the University of British Columbia. She has been a graphic designer and creative director in New York City since 1985. Robbi loved drawing and painting since childhood, and recently rekindled her passion for illustration and water color painting.
The Max the City Dog books were written and illustrated from 2020 to 2023. They were self-published with Ingram Spark and are available for sale online at Amazon and Barnes and Noble.
A Day at the Beach
Max the City Dog, a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, lives in Brooklyn and enjoys going to the beach in the summer. He rides with his “people family” on the subway to Brighton Beach. Once at the beach Max lays down on his beach blanket to bask in the sun.
He has many friends at the beach including the lifeguards.
Max runs along the beach and goes down to the ocean to cool off with Joey.
Suddenly Max spots Joey in the ocean, having trouble in the big waves, as a riptide suddenly comes in. Max barks frantically and runs up and down the beach to warn the lifeguards that there is an urgent situation happening.
Joey is rescued and Max is a hero! Max goes home tired, knowing that he helped save the day and his friend is OK.
My Undercover Zoo Adventure
Max the City Dog and Joey his best friend plan a day at the Bronx Zoo, but get separated before their adventure really begins. Max gets confused by large crowds and panics when he is surrounded by strangers. He runs amuck into the forest, ending up lost without any sense of direction. He spends a long afternoon searching for Joey, at the same time meeting many of the zoo inhabitants along the way.
It is a colorful story, full of surprising encounters and twists and turns, as Max makes his way through the zoo campus looking for his friend. Exhausted from his afternoon search, Max lays down and falls in to a dream. He wakes up to find Joey running towards him shouting his name. Happy and relieved to be together, they head for home to return another day.
The strength of friendship allowed Max to overcome his fears, persevere in his travels, to reunite with Joey again.
The Blue Bottle Mystery
One morning when Max the City Dog and his friend Joey are on their daily walk on the beach, they find a bottle washed up on the beach with a note inside. This discovery is the beginning of a series of leads the friends encounter to solve the mystery of the blue bottle. As clues are uncovered, the two detectives diligently follow them. Their diligence and patience is finally rewarded by an unexpected, larger than life discovery.
What started out as a small encounter, suddenly is gets magnified into “celebrity status”. During their adventure the friends work together closely supporting each other as they finally resolve the mystery, finally getting their well-deserved reward.
The story ends with an altruistic conclusion that is welcomed by all their neighborhood friends. The story is upbeat and reinforces the idea that there is still good in the world to be found.
A Day at the Beach Book Illustrations
Cover of book and drawing of Max
Cover spread for the Beach book
Max chasing squirrels
Max at the Aquarium
Max running in the waves with Joey
Max sunbathing on the beach
Max in the shade under the Coney Isalnd pier
Max and Joey visiting the lifeguards
My Undercover Zoo Adventure Book Illustrations
Leaving for the zoo together
The main entrance of the Bronx Zoo
Max surprises the aligator
Max visiting the parrots
The giraffe compound
Joey ditstessed because Max is missing
Max sleeping with the tiger
Mx has a dream about the animals
The Blue Bottle Mystery Book Illustration
Jpey and Max on their morning beach walk
Leaving to go home to examine the bottle
Running to the subway
People look like dogs on the subway
Arriving at Grand Central Station
Real pirates and treasure
All the dogs in front of the Dog Shelter
Max in his bed dreaming