Where the Wild Things Are Author: Visit Amazon's Maurice Sendak Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0064431789 | Format: PDF
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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.
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"Each word has been carefully chosen and the simplicity of the language is quite deceptive." --
-- SLJ."The clearer reproductions of the original art are vibrant and luminous [in this edition]." --
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- Age Range: 4 - 8 years
- Lexile Measure: 740L (What's this?)
- Paperback: 48 pages
- Publisher: HarperCollins; 50 ANV edition (December 26, 2012)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0064431789
- ISBN-13: 978-0064431781
- Product Dimensions: 9 x 10 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
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