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Title
Where
the Wild Things Are
Author
Maurice
Sendak
Age Range
4 - 8
Brief Description
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.
