About this title: Young Max acts too wild for his mother's liking, and is sent to his room without his supper. From there, he travels to a place inhabited by monsters who are scary, ridiculous, and lovable all at once. Max becomes their king, but comes to miss the comforts and love of home. Illustrated with finely detailed, color pen-and-ink drawings. Named one the Best Illustrated Books of 1963 by the NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW and winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal.
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780064434225ISBN:0064434222
Description: Sendak, Maurice. Very Good. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Historias Para Dormir. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780439052139ISBN:0439052130
Description: Very good+ 9" x 10" Spanish edition of Where the Wild Things Are. a nice only slightly used copy. nice interior---no marks. tight, bright, clean; no tears; Cover barely handled. Caldecott Award Winner. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Scholastic Book, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780439052139ISBN:0439052130
Description: Very Good. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. P/O name sticker and "Spanish" written on cover, Clean text, no writing, marks or tears observed. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780064434225ISBN:0064434222
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Rayo
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780064434225ISBN:0064434222
Description: Sendak, Maurice. New. Text in English, Spanish. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Historias Para Dormir. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Description: Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Santillana USA Pub Co Inc
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9788420430225ISBN:8420430226
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: RAYO
Date Published: 1996
ISBN-13:9780064434225ISBN:0064434222
Description: Maurice Sendak's beloved Where the Wild Things Are, winner of the 1964 Caldecott Medal, is now available in a newly revised Spanish edition. Spanish speakers and listeners will now be able to join Max as he sets sail and becomes king of all Wild Things. read more
"Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child & 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 & 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. Each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things--with mismatched parts & 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 & a child's imagination. This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf's suit, giggle-stiflingly funny at times, & even manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home."
"Summary: Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child & 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 & 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. Each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder. The wild things--with mismatched parts & 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 & a child's imagination. This Sendak classic is more fun than you've ever had in a wolf's suit, giggle-stiflingly funny at times, & even manages to reaffirm the notion that there's no place like home.
Topic: Escaping reality by creating an imaginary world, but knowing that you can always go back home
Specific curricular uses: Read aloud for first grade: would be a good book to introduce to beginning readers
Social issues the book addresses: Mischievous children, consequences of disobedience and acting out, creating an imaginary world with imaginary friends as a way of escape
Specific literary elements: Max is a precocious and complex character who travels between two different settings in the book - his house (the real world) and the imaginary place where the wild things live. The unique and unforgettable portrayal of the settings by author Maurice Sendak is one of the things that makes this book most special.
Interactions and counter actions of text and images: Sendak's illustrations support the text when it is there, and in some cases, tell the story on their own. For example, there is no text to describe the "wild rumpus" that occurs, but the pictures tell us everything we need to know in order to get the right meaning from the story, and maybe even add some fantastic ideas of our own!"
"1. Summary: Little Max gets sent to his room without supper for being too wild and his bedroom becomes a forest. An ocean tumbles with a private boat for Max, so he sailed off through the night and day. It took almost a year to get where the wild things are! The wild things did not scare Max, so they made Max their king! The wild things and Max has a wild rompus, but eventually Max becomes lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. He gave up being king of the wild thing and sailed in and out of weeks for almost a year back to his bedroom - where his supper was still hot waiting for him.
2. Reading Level: early/transitional genre is fantasy fiction topic is escaping reality to enter an imaginary world
3. Specific curricular uses: read aloud, readers theatre
4. Social issues the book addresses: acting out, imaginary friends
5. Specific literary elements the book demonstrates: relies heavily on descriptive language to move the story along, setting is in 2 main places - Max's bedroom and where the wild things are, without these the story wouldn't be the same.
6. Interactions & counteractions of the text & image: Some pages have no text at all and the illustrations become the narration. Words and illustrations are interchangeable, both do the job of narrating the events."
It's between this and "If You Give A Mouse A Cookie" for my favorite children's book of all time. Every page drips with nostalgia. Reading it puts me right back to sneaking into my brother's room in the early mornings, trying not to wake him up. It was his copy of the book, and one he didn't like to share often, so gaining access to it was a precious time, and one that had to be thoroughly planned out. It was me acting out my fantasy's of being the vagrant child Max.
Of course, most of the time I would fail, stumble, wake my brother up, and he would begrudgingly read the book with me. Our home was not a place of Wild Things, so in this book we ate them up. We yearned for our own wild rumpus, but settled to go along on someone else's journey.
This book is great, and I do enjoy in itself. But I will never be able to sever my childhood memories from the pages themselves. This book is the earliest memory I have of my brother, and sparked a new level of dedication to each other that I have leaned on for support ever sense.
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