, by Maurice Sendak. Over the years Mr. Sendak has won several other awards, including the 1970 Hans Christian Andersen Award for children's book illustration, and in 2003 he shared the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award with Christine Nöstlinger, the first time it was awarded.
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.book details
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.
Reading level: Ages 4-8
Hardcover: 48 pages
Publisher: Harper Collins; 25th Anniversary edition (November 9, 1988)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0060254920
ISBN-13: 978-0060254926
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The emphasis of this post is the book (as described above), but here are a couple of pieces of related video that I thought you and your kids might like.
This clip below of President Obama reading Where the Wild Things are is so cute. I recommend sitting your kid on your lap and watching this with them. It is funny too, I love the secret service man in the background. Very serious, LOL.
And the below clip is the trailer for the upcoming movie. My daughter says, "They better not mess this up." We will probably go and see it and give it a review here.
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