This is the classic of all children's books. It is beautifully illustrated and the winner of the 1963 Caldecott Medal for illustration. The author Maurice Sendak is described as one of those great children's book creators who could write and draw.
Max is a creative, willful child who gets sent to his room without supper. Angry at his mother, he escapes to a fantastic world full of wild but controllable monsters where he becomes the King of All Wild Things. But after a while he longs to return to where "someone loved him best of all." He finds that, by leaving his supper for him, his mother still loves him. The book nicely balances the child's need for imaginative thinking with a sense of limits, and the pleasures of home.
The illustrations in this book are startling and amazing so help shaping the fantasies of millions of children.
Sendak, Maurice. Where the wild things are, New York : Harper Collins, 1988.
- Reading level : 3-7 years old
- Format : Hardcover
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