Where the Wild Things Are

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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. 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.

Genre: Juvenile Fiction; Fantasy; Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Fiction; Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Magic; Children: Grades 1-2; Monsters; Fiction; Bedtime and Dreams; Bedtime Stories; Classics; Juvenile Fiction / Classics; Children's 4-8 - Picturebooks;

Average Review: 5 stars

Review: Sweet Fun Story : A magical story with a little bit of lesson built into it. The best part is saying the fun-to-pronounce words and looking at the detailed pictures.