Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak
Harper Collins
Fiction, YA Picture Book
****+ (Good/Great)
DESCRIPTION: Wearing his wolf suit, young Max turns into a terror, until his mother sends him to bed without supper. Disappearing into a forest of his own imagining, he travels to a land where wild things rule.
REVIEW: Since Sendak's death, this book has seen a resurgence in popularity at the library... and, once again, I found it on top of the bin during a slow time at work. (And, no, I hadn't read this before.) Like most picture books, the words read fast, but there's a little more to Sendak's tale than a fast read and colorful pictures. Max has to work through his own emotions, without adults dropping sugar-sweetened lessons onto his head. The illustrations remain classics. It lingers in the memory, and on the bookshelves, for a reason.
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