Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are
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Author: Maurice Sendak
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 1988-11-09
ISBN: 0060254920
Number of pages: 48
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Publisher: Harper Collins
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Book Review: great fun
Summary: 5 Stars

I bought this book for my 2 month old daughter and she loves it! Its one of the only books she'll sit through and make happy noises when I'm reading.

Summary of Where the Wild Things Are

The 1964 Caldecott Medal Winner for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year by Maurice Sendak. Brian O'Doherty of The New York Times said the Mr. Sendak's work "disguised in fantasy, springs from his earliest self, from the vagrant child that lurks in the heart of all of us."
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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