Where+The+Wild+Things+Are+book+review


 * Bibliographic data: **
 * Title- Where The Wild Things Are
 * Author- Maurice Sendak
 * Illustrator- Maurice Sendak
 * Pages- 40
 * Publisher- Harper and Row
 * Publication date- 1963
 * ISBN- 0-06-025492-0
 * Age- 5-8

Where the Wild Things Are is a picture book following a young boy named Max. Max is sent to bed without dinner because he creates havoc by stomping around his house in a wolf costume. When he is in his room, it turns into a forest and he sails to an island where beasts known as the wild things live. Instead of eating him, they make Max their king. They enjoy their time together, but Max decides to return home to his bedroom where his hot dinner is waiting for him.
 * Summary:**

The illustrations in this book play an essential role in the success of this book. When students read this book, they can look that the picture to expand their imagination of what they were predicting the words were trying to say. This is especially helpful to students whom are not as strong of readers yet. When they look at the pictures they are able to almost create their own story of what they think is happening.
 * Analysis of a literary element (illustrations):**

This is a book for elementary school children in kindergarten to about second grade. This book is easy enough for students to read independently or by the teacher aloud to the whole class. By reading this book, Students learn that even though it is nice to go out, make friends, and have fun, but if you ever get lonely, you can always go home, no matter how much trouble you got into.
 * Review:**

Maurice Sendak was an American writer and illustrator, born in Brooklyn, New York. He decided he wanted to start illustrating when he was twelve years old after seeing the movie //Fantasia.// In the 1950s he illustrated books written by other authors before deciding to write his own books. More about Sendak
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