Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendack

 

Summary:

Max gets to sent to bed without supper for dressing as a wolf and causing trouble. When in his room he uses his imagination and a forest grows.  Max boards a ship and sails across oceans to an island where the wild things live.  At first he is frightened by the wild things, but Max hypnotizes them and they then reign him King.  Then far away Max smells something good, and sails back home where he finds hot supper in his room.

• a classic of children´s literature
• even though Max misbehaves, the reader can learn of parental love
• the story, writing, and art will have kids asking for repeated readings
• awarded Caldecott Medal

Sendak, M. (1963). Where the wild things are. NY: HarperCollins.