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Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
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Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

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"It made me want to be a "wild thing" and have adventures. Also, it's the first book I ever remember reading at this library 13 or 14 years ago."
  JMInfo | Nov 23, 2009 |
Max is a crazy kid who loves to have fun. His adventures are out of control and all over the place! He chases his dog and tips over pots! He gets sent to his room without dinner for causing too much of a ruckus, and in return finds himself in a jungle. There he makes friends with the Wild Things and becomes king. After a ton of fun and adventures, he finds himself homesick and wanting to go home. Little did he know, supper was waiting for him once he returned. ( )
  Sarah21123 | Nov 19, 2009 |
Age Appropriateness: primary

media: drawing, pen, and paint ( )
  kphillips08 | Nov 16, 2009 |
This is a book about a boy named Max who seemed to get into trouble a lot. One day when he was playing like he was a wolf, he found to much trouble to get into. His mother sent him to his room without eating. Max's imagination kicked and and before long he was with other wild creatures but Max was King of all the wild things. It wasn't long until Max became home sick and decided to come back home. When he got home his supper was waiting on him and it was still warm. ( )
  wendyfincher | Nov 16, 2009 |
Max was being quite mischievous. Getting himself into trouble he creates a world of his own to escape to. This place is full of monsters and Max is King over them all. He has adventures with these creatures. He wakes up from his dreams to find the dinner that he thought he was forced to miss. Things aren't so bad after all.
  katerch | Nov 13, 2009 |
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The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him wild thing. And so he said, "I'll eat you UP!" And so he was sent to bed without eating anything.
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Where the Wild Things Are

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Max is sent to his room without supper and imagines (or dreams?) a wild rumpus in a land where he is the King of All Wild Things. Though the Wild Things love him so much they want to eat him up, Max makes the choice to go back home, sailing back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and night into his own room, where his mother has left him his supper after all. A wonderful story for self-awareness, acceptance of “wild thing” feelings and understanding that (for most of us) there is someone who loves us no matter what.

Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0060254920, Hardcover)

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."

(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:52 -0400)

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