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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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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 |
One of my all time favorites! Max is sent to his room without supper and while he in in there, he falls asleep. While in his slumber, he dreams of his bedroom turning into a forest and that he as king of the forest. The "Wild Things" come out while in his dream. At first Max is terrified of their scary fangs and claws, but eventually they become friends and Max is loved by them all. When it time for him to return home, the wild things beg Max to stay. However, he has become home sick and is ready to get back home. When he wakes up his dinner is there waiting for him.
  ecrobinson | Nov 12, 2009 |
This book is about a little boy who is in a wolf suit and starts acting like a wild wolf. He talks back so he is forced to go to bed without supper. He falls asleep dreaming of wild things in the forest. He becomes king for being the wildest of all. He abandons the throne to return to his room and find his hot supper.

I liked the book because of the chosen words and the illustrations. Children always want to be someone or something else. It shows that consequences occur when being too wild and that there is a time to be wild and a time to settle down.

I would have the children make masks of wild things out of paper plates. We would wear them in class during reading time.
  mrs_rgutierrez | Oct 26, 2009 |
Where the Wild Things Are, is a classic book about a boy named Max. Max gets in trouble right before dinner, so he is sent to his room. While in his room, everything begins to magically change. Suddenly he is traveling over water, and lands in a world of odd creatures; wild things. These wild things, name Max the King of Wild Things because they are frightened of him. After dancing and being wild all night, Max suddenly smells food and wants to go home where he is loved. He travels back over the water, and is back home, in his room, where is supper is waiting for him.
  terios | Oct 25, 2009 |
I read this book during college when I was majoring in elementary education. It presents a story of a boy's inner journey through monsters of his own creation in a way that is compelling. The development of Max, the boy in the book, is beautiful to see. How Sendak pulled this off in such a short picture book in a way that appeals to me as an adult amazes me to this day. ( )
  rmcdow | Oct 25, 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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Canonical titleWhere the Wild Things Are
Original publication date1963
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Awards and honorsCaldecott Medal (1964), Waterstones The Nation's Favourite Children's Books (1997, No 59), Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, A Horn Book Fanfare Best Book (1964)
First wordsThe 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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Publisher's editorUrsula Nordstrom
DescriptionMax 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 b... (show all)
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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."

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