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Where the Wild Things Are |  | Author: Maurice Sendak
Brand: HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Category: Book
List Price: $17.95
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Rating:  494 reviews
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 40 Anv
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 48
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 10.4 x 0.4
MPN: HC-0060254920
ISBN: 0060254920
EAN: 9780060254926
Publication Date: November 9, 1988
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Product Description
Beautiful, award winning, hardcover book, " Where the Wild Things Are" is a classic childrens' book that ever child should have in their collection of books at home! This book is filled with fantasy to encourage children to dream and pretend in their own world.
Amazon.com Review
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.
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 Imagination Gone Wild. August 28, 2010
Big Motivator
Where The Wild Things Are is an incredible imaginative story that is fun to read. The illustrations and cover are amazing. The story is about a boy named Max who escapes to a mysterious land full of strange creatures. This book is a classic and for good reason.... great read.
Wonderful book August 21, 2010
C. Moore
I loved reading this book to my children and purchased it for a new grandson so he could be WILD along with these characters. Great story!
Great Book. Great GIft August 16, 2010
GO4 Fan (Des Moines, IA)
I've given this wonderful book as a gift over one hundred times to co-workers and friends upon the birth of their first child -- male or female. My children love to have us read it to them and read it to each other.
Not a favourite for my kids August 12, 2010
M. Wilkinson
I purchased this book as it was considered a classic. My kids (boy/girl/3/6) , however, have never been that interested in it. They LOVE stories, but this one we ended up giving away as it was collecting dust on the shelf.
The movie does not even come close July 4, 2010
Gary Powell (Hawaii)
Ho sad that this classic combination of words and illustrations has fallen flat on the silver screen. Like most adaptations, Maurice Sendak's remarkable literary achievement is best suited to the vivid world of our own imagination rather than the feeble Hollywooding of yet another great work.
"Where the Wild Things Are" is a romp through a wonderland, a run through a scary forest and a complete captivation of the mind and all it can conjure. Whether this book is read aloud (and that should always be the first introduction) or re-read by the young person (or later "young" person)the world of unknown is brought to life in these pages. We find monsters of all kinds of shapes and sizes and colors. Some of them are new and some seem to be from the hidden places in our own minds. All of them, we discover, may not be as terrible as first imagined.
Grab a copy of this book. It is far too good to be borrowed. Like all good books, it must be owned and treasured.
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