Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
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Author: Maurice SendakBrand: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Deluxe Edition
Published: 1988-11-09
ISBN: 0060254920
Number of pages: 48
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Harper Collins
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- ISBN13: 9780060254926
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Where the Wild Things Are
Book Review: Poetic, takes you to a different world!
Summary: 5 Stars
Maurice Sendak's wonderful art is the first thing that hits you about this book. The story is simple - a boy does naughty things, is sent off to bed without dinner. He goes (in his mind) to a fantasy land where the wild things are... but hunger makes him return to his room - to find a hot dinner waiting for him there. Mommy did not have the heart to *really* send him to bed without dinner after all!
The text lends itself to a nice rhythmic reading, there's lots of drama in it with monsters and partying. Yet the little boy in the middle of his wild freedom, wants parental comfort:
"And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all."
To give an idea of the poetic nature of the story, here's a snippet, where Max travels back from the place where the wild things are:
"... sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day..."
I love the way reality and fantasy are spun together in this story. My kids, 5.5 yrs and 3.5 yrs, love the book as well.
Summary of Where the Wild Things Are
In the forty years since Max first cried "Let the wild rumpus start," Maurice Sendak's classic picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children's books of all time.?Now, in celebration of this special anniversary, introduce a new generation to Max's imaginative journey to where the wild things are.
Winner, 1964 Caldecott Medal
Notable Children's Books of 1940-1970 (ALA)
1981 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for Illustration
1963, 1982 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1963, 1982 (NYT)
A Reading Rainbow Selection
1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress)
1981 Children's Books (NY Public Library)
100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1988 (NY Public Library)
Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.
The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.
This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf suit, and it manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home.
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