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Title: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak ISBN: 0-06-025492-0 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 09 November, 1988 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.81 (191 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Captures the Spirit of Childhood
Comment: This is the classic of all children's books. I've read it to my two kids so many times we all have it memorized. We're on our second copy because the pages were literally falling out of the first copy.
Not only is it beautifully illustrated and written, I think we love this book so much because it captures the joys and fears of childhood so perfectly.
Max is a creative, willful child who gets sent to his room without supper. Angry at his mother, he escapes to a fantastic world full of wild but controllable monsters where he becomes the King of All Wild Things. But after a while he longs to return to where "someone loved him best of all." He finds that, by leaving his supper for him, his mother still loves him.
I don't know of any other book that better captures the feelings of being a child (or of being a parent watching your children grow up.)
Rating: 5
Summary: This Is A Great Book! ...
Comment: Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is a really great book. It is winner of the Caldecott Medal for the Most Distinguished Picture book of the Year. The story is about a boy named Max who puts on a wolf suit and makes lots of mischeif. He is then sent to his room without any supper. He then dreams of going to where the wild things are. Something happens there and he decides that he wants to go home to where someone loves him the best and to the things that smell good to eat. He goes back home and supper is waiting for him in his room.
This is a great book for teaching children how to put words and pictures together. Mauice Sendak did an excellent job with the pictures. This book is not only fun to read and play along with but to learn a message. That being in charge and having everyone listen to you isn't always the greatest. Also, I think that this is an excellent bedtime story. Your children will have fun listening to you read it to them, and then them reading it to you as they get older. I highly recamend that you read this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: So he sailed away for a year and a day
Comment: I haven't a clue how one goes about reviewing the book that is perhaps the most beloved, respected, and widely enjoyed American picture book of the last 100 years. Maurice Sendak could never have imagined that his canny "Where the Wild Things Are" would not only capture the Caldecott Award of 1963, but go on to be hailed by critics, loved by librarians, and considered by parents to be one of the finest works of picture book art ever concocted. Is the book deserving of its praise? I suppose. But honestly, it is very difficult to read it today without getting caught up in its publicity and hype. On the whole, though, it is an enjoyable read and few can resist its charms.
We begin the book with two small vignettes of the naughty things Max does that get him sent to bed. Max is a boy outfitted in a wolf suit, and after being sent to his room he finds his boudoire changed completely into a wild forest. After hopping a nearby boat and traveling, "In and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are" he is in a land of monsters. Taming them by staring them down, the Wild Things make Max their king and celebrate his crowning. Max proclaims that a wild rumpus should start, and start it does. When it ends, however, Max decides that he needs to be near someone who loves him. He leaves his beloved Wild Things, sails back into his room, and goes down to dinner where, on a single white page, we are told, "it was still hot".
Simultaneously combining the wish to be a wild naughty creature uninhibited by love, or rules, or society and at the same time revealing the human need for comfort, the book is a success. In its illustrations, those wild crazy creatures with their too large eyes and sharp razor-like claws, it is a success. In its text, the elegantly presented last line or the repetition of wild things saying "I'll eat you up", it is a success. Heck, the book is good. And really, what more is there to say? Reviewing classics like this one is a pointless job. I'm not going to be shocking and say that every reviewer since the 1960s is wrong about this book, cause they're not. They're right, it's great. Does it deserve the huge publicity and love its garnered? Maybe. Maybe not. But the adults like it and the kids like it, and that is (as they say) enough. So take it home and love it yourself. It is a great book.
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Title: Alexander And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Ray Cruz, Judith Viorst ISBN: 0689711735 Publisher: Aladdin Library Pub. Date: 15 July, 1987 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein ISBN: 0060256656 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: June, 1964 List Price(USD): $15.99 |
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Title: The Very Hungry Caterpillar Board Book by Eric Carle ISBN: 0399226907 Publisher: Philomel Books Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $9.99 |
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Title: Harold and the Purple Crayon 50th Anniversary Edition by Crockett Johnson ISBN: 0064430227 Publisher: Harpercollins Juvenile Books Pub. Date: 20 May, 1981 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Goodnight Moon Board Book by Margaret Wise Brown, Clement Hurd ISBN: 0694003611 Publisher: HarperFestival Pub. Date: 30 September, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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