Where the Wild Things Are

Description

In the forty years since Max first cried "Let the wild rumpus start," Maurice Sendak s classic picture book has become one of the most highly acclaimed and best-loved children s books of all time. Now, in celebration of this special anniversary, introduce a new generation to Max s imaginative journey to Where the Wild Things Are.

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.