Where the Wild Things Are

Sendak, Maurice

ISBN 10: 0370007727 / ISBN 13: 9780370007724

Published by Published by Bodley Head, London, 1970

About this Item

, approx 37 pages, illustrated in colour Third UK impression , light wear at head and tail of spine, internally and externally clean, the book is in very good condition , dust-jacket protected in removable plastic sleeve, 6 cm closed tear to front top edge, lightly spotted, few smaller edge tears, price not clipped, in fair condition , pictorial paper covered boards 25.5 x 23 cm Hardback ISBN: 370007727.

Seller Inventory # 52394

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Where the Wild Things Are
• Publisher: Published by Bodley Head, London
• Publication Date: 1970
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0370007727
• ISBN 13: 9780370007724
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sendak, Maurice, Where the Wild Things Are

About this title

Synopsis

When Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief, his mother calls him ''Wild Thing'' and sends him to bed without any supper. Alone in his room, Max enters a magical world and sets sail across the sea to the place where the wild things are. The wild things roar their terrible roars and gnash their terrible teeth and roll their terrible eyes and show their terrible claws . . .

But Max tames the wild things and is made their king.

Will he ever want to go home?

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.