Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak

Harper Collins Publishers

1963

                Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1928. When he first wrote this book many parents were concerned about how it would scare their children. However, soon it became a very well known book that all children love to read.

                This book is about a young boy with a very wild imagination. It begins with Max making a raucous around the house and his mother sends him to his room and calls him "Wild Thing." He has this amazing imagination that takes him to where the wild things are and they say is the wildest of them all, but soon he misses home and smell the dinner his mother cooked. He returns home to find his supper waiting for him, and still hot.

              I enjoy the "Wild Things" in this book and the detailed images. I would recommend this book to help parents and teachers teach children about imagination. This is a good book for younger ages, a huge classic. I would use this book to talk about what things we wish to become and how we can become those things. Also, it may help children to learn to explore their imaginations!