About this title: WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE was one of the first children's books to depict the sometimes subversive inner mind of a child. A seemingly straightforward tale about monsters, the story allows readers to deal with their fears of the unknown. Wearing a wolf suit and acting like a wild child, a boy named Max gets so out of control that his mother sends him to bed without his supper. That night Max laughs with delight as his room is transformed into a land inhabited by wild things--monsters almost as wild as Max himself. At first, the monsters try to scare Max, but, using a magic trick to conquer ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Scholastic Inc
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780590032407ISBN:0590032402
Description: Good. Standard used condition. May have light reading or storage wear. All orders processed within 2 business days. Ships from Foxboro MA. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780064431781ISBN:0064431789
Description: Good. 1984; Paperback; No notes/hiliting; Clean pages; Cover corner crease; Lightly edgeworn cover; No dog-ears; Strong binding; front cover is lightly creased along spine. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780060254926ISBN:0060254920
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Description: Very Good. 0060254920 dustjacket has rub wear top edge w/ 1"tear / light shelf wear / edge wear cover / pages very good condition//"Buy with Confidence-Satisfaction Guaranteed! Customer Service Makes All the Difference. " read more
Description: Sendak, Maurice. Very Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperCollins
Date Published: 1984
ISBN-13:9780064431781ISBN:0064431789
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780064431781ISBN:0064431789
Description: Sendak, Maurice. Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Caldecott Collection. Audience: Children/juvenile. Softcover book. Jacket is laminated color illustration. Some slight defects/one small tear on the bottom of the front cover. read more
Description: Sendak, Maurice. Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 48 p. Contains: Illustrations. Intended for a juvenile audience. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperTrophy
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780064431781ISBN:0064431789
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Description: Fair. B000UV92R6 Ex-library book with stickers and stampings. Ugly but readable. Repaired binding. Front cover creased at corners. Back cover has large chunk torn off of bottom corner by spine. Small tears on pages. Most items ship within 24 hours. -2a- read more
"Reading level: advanced K-2 Sendak uses a wide range of artistic formats to develop the story. The use of flat, stitched characters make the story appear slightly dark but it still has that child-like appeal that will draw the attention of children. The size of the pictures appear to grow as the plot thickens and then get smaller again as the plot winds down. The text in the story is very interesting as their are a lot of long sentences that run on for pages at a time. This provides a sense of suspense and would make the child want to keep turning the pages. Also, the plain black text on the flat white background makes the reader focus a great deal on both the text and the art seperatly. The child appeal from this book comes for the realistic nature that children can connect with. Although the actual story line is very make-believe, it's not a far stretch from the imagination of many children. Most children could probably put themselves in this exact situation. I do believe that this book would be effective for a young group of children. I think that although it is made short on purpose because it's a children's picture book, there could be more details added to make the book more interesting.
Content Connections Social Studies, Lanugage Arts
How To Use In The Classroom I would take the section of the book that discusses how Max was seen as the King to the wild things. You could then take a historical look at Kings and their signifigance to our history."
"Pre-K - 3rd (Read Aloud/Silent Reading) Sendak illustrated the first few pages with dull, sort of muted colors, adding more and more color as Max entered his fantasy. Not only did he add color, Sendak also increased the size of the picture until it consumed the entire page, just as Max became consumed by his imagination. This book only contains nine sentences, Sendak broke the sentences up and he used word repetition to emphasize certain words and phrases. In regards to the art and text, the beginning of the book almost mirrors the end, with the pictures starting small and getting bigger, then shrinking again and then with the repetition of phrases such as "through night and day, in and out of weeks and almost over a year". A variety ages can relate to this book through Max's imagination, because all children fantasize at same point in their life. This is one of my favorite children's books; it's a timeless tale that will be used in schools forever. Science/Language Arts Lesson Plan Idea: Have students write a story about what they think is happening on the pages with no words."
"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."
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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