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Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

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Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of "Wild Things, "where he is made king.

Paperback, 48 pages

Published November 9th 1988 by HarperTrophy (first published January 1st 1963)

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Jul 12, 2011

jzhunagev rated it

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Recommends it for: Kidz at ♥!

Recommended to jzhunagev by: Saw the movie

Shelves: 2011-reads, award-winning-best-seller, adventure, childrens-or-middle-grade-books, classics, dark-chest-of-wonders, fantasy

Through a Child’s Eye
(A Book Review of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are)

I’m glad that I recently scored a vintage 1963 edition (pictures here) of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are in Booksale during one of the mini Meet Ups with my Goodreads-The Filipino Group friends. I breeze through the book in a matter of minutes while waiting for them, and right there and then something just hit me. Without a doubt, it certainly earns its place as a classic storybook of ...more

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Nov 03, 2007

Nathan rated it

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Recommends it for: Delusional miscreants.

Shelves: fiction

I have no doubt that this book damaged me, psychologically, as a small child. It is one of the earliest books I vividly remember reading aloud to myself, and I remember the first time my mother read it to me before she put me to bed. Here's the gist of the plot: A little boy named Max dresses up in a wolf costume, plays with a hammer, chases his dog with a fork, then threatens to cannibalize his mother. His mother, a master of irony, then puts him to bed with no dinner. Already, this story shoul...moreI have no doubt that this book damaged me, psychologically, as a small child. It is one of the earliest books I vividly remember reading aloud to myself, and I remember the first time my mother read it to me before she put me to bed. Here's the gist of the plot: A little boy named Max dresses up in a wolf costume, plays with a hammer, chases his dog with a fork, then threatens to cannibalize his mother. His mother, a master of irony, then puts him to bed with no dinner. Already, this story should start creeping you out. Then a forest starts to grow in Max's bedroom. And no, no chemicals have been ingested anywhere in the story. Though the bit about chasing the dog with the fork does imply a delusional state. Regardless, a fucking forest grows in the kids bedroom. So naturally he gets in a boat and sails off to the other side of the world, to where all these "wild things" are. And promptly subjugates everyone he sees. I'm a damn toddler, and my mom is reading me a book about a sociopath. So Max has a ball with this gang he's conquered and converted, and they howl at the moon and hop through trees. Then he gets hungry and goes home, where his mother, no doubt terrified of his new army of foreign creatures, has left his food for him, still warm. I thought, "This woman aims to do me harm." Yes, please, mother. Read me a story about my bedroom becoming a forest inhabited by monsters, then put me to bed. Think I slept that night? No, I hid out under my bed with a plastic baseball bat, a water gun and flashlight, hoping to God that if this was the night it all went wrong, I had the courage to look those monsters in the eye and pretend I wasn't wetting myself. I made a nest with a giant teddy bear and two pillows and didn't come out until the next morning, when I heard my mom coming down the hall. All day long I pretended nothing was different. But I asked her to read me Where The Wild Things Are again that night. And the next night. For months. I would ask her questions like "Do you think I will have my monsters get you if you don't make me supper?" And she'd smile, and say "Go to bed, Nathan." Spooky shit, I'm telling you. I learned to read through fear and intimidation. A subversive masterpiece.

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Aug 16, 2007

fleegan rated it

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This book is crap, and let me tell you why. The kid is a jerk and is sent to his room without supper. He proceeds to go to some magical place where these monsters live and he bosses them around and is mean to them. Then he gets back home...having not learned that being a mean jerk is wrong...and there on his table in his room is dinner...and it's still warm. What's the lesson here exactly?
Hate the book.

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Mar 22, 2009

Brad rated it

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Shelves: faves, children

Of all the books I read my kids, and there are many, this is my favourite to perform.

It is so easy to turn Where the Wild Things Are into a a big, rollicking tickle fest, and I am never able to resist the urge. When those Wild Things show up with their "terrible roars" and "terrible eyes" and "terrible claws," I attack my kids with everything I've got until they are reduced to quivering masses of giggled out jelly.

And Max, the King of the Wil...more

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Jan 09, 2012

Gundula rated it

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Recommends it for: Everyone!!

Shelves: adventure-tales, childrens-literature, fairy-tales-fantasy, book-reviews, favorites, picture-books, translations

It is hard to review a book that was and still is one of my favorite all-time picture books. I love everything about this book, from the text to the illustrations. I also love the message Maurice Sendak promotes here, a message of unconditional love, a message that even if one misbehaves, there will be supper waiting on the table (Max does get sent to his room, but no matter how much he has misbehaved, his mother will always love him and cherish him). Of course, that particular message is only...moreIt is hard to review a book that was and still is one of my favorite all-time picture books. I love everything about this book, from the text to the illustrations. I also love the message Maurice Sendak promotes here, a message of unconditional love, a message that even if one misbehaves, there will be supper waiting on the table (Max does get sent to his room, but no matter how much he has misbehaved, his mother will always love him and cherish him). Of course, that particular message is only one of many. As essential as the concept of universal love is the fact that children's emotions and tantrums are taken seriously and not dismissed here. Max might be seen and chastised as a "wild thing" by his mother, but his emotions, his actions are seen as an integral part of his being, maybe not quite appropriate, but also not completely inappropriate, but rather as a living, breathing part of Max's soul. And it is these emotions, these feelings that are the impetus to Max's adventures in the realm of the Wild Thing. However, once Max's emotions have been allowed and have flourished to the maximum, he retreats from the realm of the Wild Things and is happy to return home to his room, his waiting supper and his mother's love.

One thing I must mention concerning my recent reading of Where the Wild Things Are (for the Picture Book Club in the Children's Literature Group) is that it was the first time I have ever read this book in English. I had only ever read the book in German translation, and I have to say that I actually like the translated German text better than the original English text. For those who know me, this is quite a different attitude, as I am usually very much in favour of original texts and keeping any translated texts as close to the original as possible. In this particular case, I think that I like the German text better because it is the text that I had read to me when I was a child and that I later read for myself (and a few years ago read to my nieces). It has a nostalgic hold on me that the original text, no matter how ingenious, will never have (for me, the ultimate version of Where the Wild Things Are will always, always be the German translation, Wo Die Wilden Kerle Wohnen).(less)

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Jun 08, 2008

Meg rated it

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Recommends it for: EVERYONE (yes, even you adults)

Recommended to Meg by: my mommy... who read it every night

Another 5 star! Man, I'm getting generous. You guys just keep bringing up stories that KICK TRASH! This is the greatest children's book in the history of time as far as I'm concerned. And I'll tell you something WICKED AWESOME about it that I figured out when I researched it for a play adaptation I wrote. **GET OUT THE COPY OF YOUR CHILDREN'S BOOK RIGHT NOW**... Flip through the pages, and notice that on the first page the artwork is a small rectangle... then it grows larger and larger on...more

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Mar 16, 2008

G rated it

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Shelves: kids-books-that-don-t-make-me-yawn

The classic. I would take this on a desert island. So much to explore and interpret in the words and the pictures. I'm afraid my girls don't like the book as much as I do. But sooner or later, they'll come around.

I see quite a few people complaining about Max being a little shit and not learning a lesson in "Where the Wild Things Are." Well, guess what, a lot of kids are little shits. And I believe Max did learn a few things on his journey. Sometimes it's not so good to be ...more

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Oct 22, 2009

Otis Chandler rated it

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Shelves: fiction, childrensbooks

I didn't want to add any children's books - but this one was just too cool...

Update: Saw the movie - the book was much better!

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Aug 12, 2010

Ronyell rated it

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Shelves: children-books, fantasy, maurice-sendak, surreal, picture-books, monster-books, cult-classic, weston-woods, caldecott-medal, books-into-movies, reviewed-books, books-i-already-own, 1001-children-s-books-you-must-read, ronyell-s-epinions-reviews, read-in-1992

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“Where the Wild Things Are” is Maurice Sendak’s most popular children’s book and has won the Caldecott Medal for being the most distinguished picture book of the year. Many libraries across the country have dedicated themselves to this book because of its imaginative creatures and illustrations. This book deserves the title “best children’s book” that it gained over the years.

Maurice Sendak beautifully illustrates this book with pastel colors and occasional...moreRevised Review:

“Where the Wild Things Are” is Maurice Sendak’s most popular children’s book and has won the Caldecott Medal for being the most distinguished picture book of the year. Many libraries across the country have dedicated themselves to this book because of its imaginative creatures and illustrations. This book deserves the title “best children’s book” that it gained over the years.

Maurice Sendak beautifully illustrates this book with pastel colors and occasional pencil scratching for the wild things’ hair. The illustrations that were the true highlights of this book were of the wild things having a party in six pages of the book and of Max sailing in his private boat at night when he comes back home from where the things are. Max’s character is also highlighted in this book as he responds to what a child would face if their reality is harsh and usually most children would try to imagine a world where they can do anything they want and not get in trouble with the things they do. However, when Max realizes that the wild things do not love him as much as his mother does; he decides to face reality when he returns home from where the wild things are.

Parents should know that for children who have not read “Where the Wild Things Are” might be frightened by the images of the monsters in this book. The monsters are portrayed as being half human, half animal, and half of other various creatures such as a monster on the cover of the book that has human feet and the body of a bull. These monsters may be too scary for small children as they appear to be extremely threatening towards the main character, Max, at the beginning of the book when they showed their terrible claws and teeth. However, as the book progresses, the monsters turned out to be a bit timid around Max which may lessen the fear that children would have for these monsters.

“Where the Wild Things Are” is clearly a distinguished children’s book ahead of its time and has remained to be one of the best picture books of all time. Its theme about how children use imagination to occasionally escape the perils of their lives is clearly defined in this book and would help many children realize how helpful imagination can be for their lives. However, parents may want to read this book before they show it to their children and see if their children like the monsters in this book. I would strongly recommend this book for ages five and over because while the book is easy to read, the monsters may be too much for children under five to handle.

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Aug 09, 2008

Dolly rated it

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Recommends it for: parents reading to their children

Shelves: childrens, 1970s, caldecott-medal, reading-rainbow, monsters

I remember this from my childhood - and I remember thinking that it was quite scary to me at the time! I finally got around to reading it to our girls - I figure they are old enough to handle it without being too scared. It's an interesting story, with very creative illustrations. But I still think the "Wild Things" are a little scary for little ones!

I took our girls to see the movie and it was okay, but I think we probably should've waited until they were 8 or 9. I thi...more

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Jan 18, 2012

Kathryn rated it

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Shelves: childrens-picture-books

"Where the Wild Things Are" is one of the books I remember vividly from my childhood. While I'm not sure I would call it a "favorite" (it didn't completely resonate with me as some books did, nor was it a "cozy" sort of story that I loved reading over and over), there was something utterly fascinating about it... I found the Wild Things so intriguing, I at once admired and felt ashamed of Max's behavior, I felt bad that he had to leave the Wild Things but yet happ...more

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Jun 27, 2008

Gretchen rated it

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"The pictures in this one scared me. Maybe when I'm older, say 6 months old, I'll like it then!!"

That was then, now that I'm older and more mature (I am 6.5 months old now!!) I was able to read this book, with mommy's help. While the picture's are still daunting, I thoroughly enjoyed the story. This one may very well become one of my favorites.

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Aug 28, 2010

Austin Ratner rated it

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Shelves: childrens

Until recently, I didn't understand the appeal of this book. The wildness of the boy and of the monsters, who have horns and sharp teeth, seemed inappropriate to a children's book. Then my younger son discovered a copy of it on the shelf and became attached to it; shortly after that I saw the movie version. The Spike Jonze adaptation is one of those rare instances where a movie enhances and enlarges a book by helping unpack its themes and artistic resources--and those are ample in this microc...moreUntil recently, I didn't understand the appeal of this book. The wildness of the boy and of the monsters, who have horns and sharp teeth, seemed inappropriate to a children's book. Then my younger son discovered a copy of it on the shelf and became attached to it; shortly after that I saw the movie version. The Spike Jonze adaptation is one of those rare instances where a movie enhances and enlarges a book by helping unpack its themes and artistic resources--and those are ample in this microcosmic little book. I realized after seeing the film (and after having my own children) that the problem of wildness and sharp teeth is not a problem of the Sendak book but a problem of life, perhaps the principal problem with which children grapple: what to do with their own wildness, which jeopardizes relations with loved ones and caretakers, which haunts kids in bad dreams with inversions of their own wildness, which, nevertheless, is closely related to creativity and joy, and which, in any case, will not go away. The wildness will be heard. The wildness will have its say. The wildness is an ineluctable endowment of our animal selves and of our raving grief. Not only does Sendak represent all these facets of wildness on the tiny object of a children's book, as on a gemstone, but he also captures the mood of despair of the animal caught between these obverse duties to self and to others, to chaos and order, to fantasy and reality, and he even suggests a kind of settlement: the parent wins out over the child's wildness, but wildness too prevails in the realm of imagination. The ambiguity of the unseen parent, who imprisons the child and threatens to withhold supper, but lovingly provides it anyway--in the uncivil confines of the bedroom and not at the dinner table--crystallizes this rapprochement between obversities. It will all be okay. Parents' ability to revise their decrees helps; children's ability to redirect their wildness into imagination, does too. A fellow Goodreads reader points out that the illustrations begin small with lots of white space around them and then page by page get larger until they fill the page and then creep from one page to the other, which they then fill up too, until the "wild rumpus" when the illustration displaces everything, even words, for six straight pages. Then the illustrations retract in sympathy with the boy's return to reality, order, and ... supper. It's a work of genius, I think, and proof that art can be both subtle and beloved, as long as it's true. Let the wild rumpus begin!(less)

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Mar 24, 2008

Havenisle rated it

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This is where is all started. This tore down the walls in my imagination and let me run wild with the animals!!!

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Dec 01, 2009

n* Dalal rated it

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I never read this book as a child; in my immigrant family, the childhood tales were of Akbar and Birbil, not Max and the Wild Things.

With the movie coming out, and so much talk about it, I started feeling like maybe I was missing something. But I also felt trapped, because what I had already missed out on reading this book as a child. Reading the book now means I'll know what all of you are talking about, but the childhood memories of relating to Max just can't happen. I've missed s...more

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Jan 19, 2012

Cheryl in CC NV rated it

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For years I had this memorized. I still love it. I dread seeing the movie, but someday I will.

reread Jan 19, 2011 for the Children's Books group -

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I just re-read Wild Things after a decade off and it was just a magical as the hundred other times I read it with my kids.

I loved how the size of the illustration grew, taking over more and more of the page until the rumpus, then rapidly shrinking until time to sleep. This not only reinforces the symmetr...more

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Dec 21, 2007

Johnny G rated it

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I lived in Richmond,Kentucky when I was a kid. It was a sweet, semi-rural upbringing where a six year old could walk up the street with his little poodle dog (that would be me and mine) and visit a kindly elderly couple that would only allow the dog on their couch when the dog had just been washed. Somehow the dog knew this and was always ready to take that walk up the street after it had been bathed. Weird, I know. It was also the kind of small town where people who read the New Yorker were...more

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Jun 27, 2008

Maureen rated it

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"The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind..." These are probably the best 13 opening words ever written in the history of picture books.

Sendak is a master of brevity, telling poignant stories in less words than most of us use to talk about the weather. His approach to children's literature is honest and non condescending. He remembers what is was like to be a child, and through his storytelling reminds the rest of us how our perception of the world ...more

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Aug 17, 2008

Steve rated it

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Recommends it for: anyone

Perhaps if George Bush had chosen this as his favorite book instead of 'The Hungry Caterpillar,' then maybe his tenure in office would have been slightly different (it would have also been better for him to have chosen a book that had NOT been published simultaneous with his college years, as was the case with 'Caterpillar'; at least with 'Where The Wild Things Are,' we could have all at least PRETENDED that his mother read it to him..... but I digress).

Well, anyway, what more is the...more

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Mar 20, 2009

Troy rated it

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Is it wrong that this is still probably my favorite book?

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Jan 04, 2009

Jasmine rated it

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Recommends it for: everyone that's ever been a kid

Shelves: own, children

i STILL have this book!

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Mar 26, 2009

Danny rated it

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Incredible!!!!

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Mar 25, 2009

Erica R Hopper rated it

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Recommends it for: children

Recommended to Erica R by: My mother

Shelves: 2009, childhood, books-i-own

Maurice Sendak, in my opinion, struck oil when he created this children's story. Childhood memories can be shady or impossible to remember until you discover something that came directly from your childhood. Where the Wild Things Are has that magical power over me. Every time I hear of the book or see the familiar images I return to the age of six when I received my first (and only) copy of the book from my teacher as a Christmas present.

It was my favorite book as a child and one of...moreMaurice Sendak, in my opinion, struck oil when he created this children's story. Childhood memories can be shady or impossible to remember until you discover something that came directly from your childhood. Where the Wild Things Are has that magical power over me. Every time I hear of the book or see the familiar images I return to the age of six when I received my first (and only) copy of the book from my teacher as a Christmas present.

It was my favorite book as a child and one of the first books I ever read on my own (obsessively). The story struck a cord in me and even now when I read it I remember what excited me so much.

While some children would be scared of the story I found it to be fantastic. The premises is that a little boy (Max) is sent to bed without any dinner because of his poor behavior. This immediately was seen as fantasy to my child eyes because I had never before been sent to bed without a meal. The idea was blasphemous and to me was impossible to occur! But I knew there were other kids who were bad and would get punished. I had just never thought that such a punishment could be no food. He stomps off into his room and it magically becomes a forest. I think this was my most favorite part of the book. I would look at the illustrations over and over again because I understood, in my child's mind, exactly how a bedroom could become a forest. I mean, my bedroom turned into a ship, Santa's sleigh, and forests all the time; why couldn't Max's room do the same?

He adventures off to the land where the wild things are. Monsters of sorts who are made up of different body parts from different animals. This scared me slightly as a child. While Max joyfully joined the wild things I would have paired them as the scary monsters in any of my playtimes. But seeing that Max didn't find them all that scary and they in turn seemed to worship Max I realized... maybe monsters aren't all that scary.

I'd love to say that this book enlightened me to believe that wild things who look scary might not actually be. It's not the outside that counts, blah blah. But they still kind of creeped me out and I still had plenty of monsters in my playtime moments.

But the book remained a classic in my mind. I would read it over and over. When I got older and was doing art project for school I recall making the wild things out of clay and even today I feel a soft happiness inside of me when I look over the colorful drawings and read the brief story. As a child it's a great story to loose yourself in and a wonderful start for a child to learn to read. As an adult it holds the warmth of nostalgia.(less)

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Jan 31, 2012

Scott Volz rated it

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Shelves: k-3, imagination, picture-books

A picture book classic, Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are definitely lives up to its reputation. An astoundingly imaginative take on the familiar story line of a punished child running away from home, the book tells of "wild thing" Max and the journey he takes one night after being sent to bed without dinner. A forest grows in his room, an ocean tumbles by, and Max sails off to the land of the Wild Things, where he is made king. After a "wild rumpus" with the Wild Things, Ma...more

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Jan 30, 2012

Lexi.vernaglia rated it

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When I first picked up this book I wasn’t quite sure what it would be about. The cover was very interesting and made me want to dive right in and start reading it. As, I started reading it I noticed that the size of the pictures changed as the story was being told. The bigger the picture got, the bigger Max’s adventure in his imagination was getting. I thought that was a great idea.
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Jan 05, 2012

Abigail rated it

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Recommends it for: Hard to Say...

Shelves: picture-books, sweet-youth

Chosen as one of our January selections, over in The Picture-Book Club (part of the Children's Books group here on goodreads), where our theme this month is "Children on Adventures, or Exploring," Where the Wild Things Are is one of those stories - like much of the work of Dr. Seuss - that is a treasured memento of my own early reading childhood, and as a result, excruciatingly difficult to subject to any kind of meaningful analysis (would "it's genius!" suffice?). So deeply ...moreChosen as one of our January selections, over in The Picture-Book Club (part of the Children's Books group here on goodreads), where our theme this month is "Children on Adventures, or Exploring," Where the Wild Things Are is one of those stories - like much of the work of Dr. Seuss - that is a treasured memento of my own early reading childhood, and as a result, excruciatingly difficult to subject to any kind of meaningful analysis (would "it's genius!" suffice?). So deeply embedded is it, in my memories of childhood, that it seems almost perfect to me, and utterly impervious to criticism.

With a rather free-form text - Sendak's sentences tend to tumble along, in a rushing accretion of thoughts that, despite their seeming disorganization, build flawlessly toward the final page - and brilliant engraving-style artwork, this book perfectly captures a child's willful obstinacy, when being punished (something with which I was intimately acquainted, as a girl), and the healing balm provided by the imagination, during such turbulent incidents. Childhood, despite the sincere desire of many that it should be otherwise, is not all sweetness and light. Rather, it is often a time of terror, as the young person contends with a world that is on a different, and far larger scale than herself; and sometimes also of rage, at the discovery that life, and the people in it, will not always (in fact, will rarely) be governed by our will. This isn't to say that this all that childhood is, but I think it is certainly a significant part, and a necessary one, in the maturing process. And Sendak, a true picture-book pioneer, captured that to perfection here!

I do not know, despite my love for it, to whom I would recommend Where the Wild Things Are. To young children who love imaginary (or not) voyages? To kids who resent being punished, and want a way to express their frustration, all while being assured that at the end, they will still be loved? To fans of fine engravings in general, and Sendak's work in particular? To anyone interested in the genre of picture-books? Yes. To all of these, I think.(less)

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Dec 21, 2011

Amy rated it

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Shelves: childrens

Honestly, I've never been a huge fan of Where the Wild Things Are. Sure, the monsters are cool, and the pictures of Max's room turning into a jungle do capture a bit of magic. But frankly, I just don't think this story lives up to the pictures.

I put off reading it to my niece and my nephew because it's not a book that I particulary like, but then I realized that I was blocking their exposure to it based on my subjective opinion of the book. So today I checked it out to read to the...more

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Dec 04, 2011

Nichole Hurst rated it

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Shelves: animals, art, classroom-library, ci-546-wide-reading-project, emergent-reader, fantasy, independent-reading, picture-book, primary-2nd, read-aloud, spirits-mystical

So, first time I read this book is was to my two year daughter... And to be honest, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had read great reviews about this book, and it seemed age appropriate for her; needless to say I was quite surprised. I began reading the first two pages, and I had to immediately make up my own story using the pictures. I didn't finish the book with her... we'll have to try again in a few years. Reading this book as an adult, I found it quite hilarious!

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Oct 28, 2011

Megan Baker rated it

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Where The Wild Things Are is a work of fantasy and is intended for primary readers. This book has won The Caldecott Medal and is a very well known book. It is about a young boy named Max who ventures off to find a place where wild things are. Max goes on an adventure with the wild things and is made king of all wild things. He eventually returns home, after what feel like a very long time.
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Oct 17, 2011

Rhian Loxley rated it

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I absolutely loved this book, there are few words, but the words there are evoke a real sense of mischief and adventure. Max is sent to bed with no supper and what ensues is a wonderful trip on the ocean in a private boat, until he reaches the land of the Wild Things. There are three double page spreads in the middle of the book that are solely dedicated to illustrations of a "wild rumpus" which i adore for the illustration style and Max in his comedy wolf suit!

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Maurice Bernard Sendak is an American writer and illustrator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963. An elementary school (from kindergarten to grade five) in North Hollywood, California is named in his honor.

Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents, and decided to become an illustrator after...more

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“And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!” — 136 people liked it

“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.” — 119 people liked it

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