Where The Wild Things Are (Paperback)

Maurice Sendak

ISBN 10: 0099408392 / ISBN 13: 9780099408390

Published by Random House Children's Books, London, 2000

About this Item

Paperback. The story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things are has become an acknowledged classic of children's books. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964. Presents the story of Max's adventures when he sails away to the land where the wild things. This book is the winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture Book of the Year, 1964. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where The Wild Things Are (Paperback)
• Publisher: Random House Children's Books, London
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0099408392
• ISBN 13: 9780099408390
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

About this title

Synopsis

Voted as the greatest children''s book of all time in BBC Culture poll.

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him ''Wild Thing'' and sends him to bed without his supper.

That night a forest begins to grow in Max''s room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are.

Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins!

But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.

Review

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.