Daniel's review
Where the Wild Things Are
by Maurice Sendak
Daniel's review
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
Daniel's review
rating:
bookshelves:
childrens-books,
have-read,
major-prize-winner
Still one of the best children's books around.
I read this to my sons again the other night and they love it. My eight-year-old saying, as I finished, "This was his imagination, right? He wasn't really with the wild things."
The story is so simple that the reader/listener can follow but interpret and add to it in their own imagination. The artwork, truly classic, captures the right amount of a child's imagination ... making the wild things creepy and scary ... and yet not quite so creepy and scary.
As long as there are children who misbehave and have wild imaginations, this book will live on book shelves. Anyone who doesn't own this, should.
I read this to my sons again the other night and they love it. My eight-year-old saying, as I finished, "This was his imagination, right? He wasn't really with the wild things."
The story is so simple that the reader/listener can follow but interpret and add to it in their own imagination. The artwork, truly classic, captures the right amount of a child's imagination ... making the wild things creepy and scary ... and yet not quite so creepy and scary.
As long as there are children who misbehave and have wild imaginations, this book will live on book shelves. Anyone who doesn't own this, should.
