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Krista Benjamin April 11, 2012 Prof. McVerry EDU 307 **__Book Review: “Where the Wild Things Are” __**  Where the wild things are is a classic children’s book that really has a great theme. The theme in this book is unconditional love. The book also really stirs the mind with imagination. The fact that Max’s parents had his supper waiting for him hot when he returned is a comforting message to young children. Young minds are very imaginative and having an imagination is very important to younger students because it helps them be creative. This book goes deep into the mind of a young boy who as he starts to smell food when he is on his mysterious island and decides return home after “years of being gone” he realizes he missed his family.  This book is about Max, a little boy who gets in trouble with his mom for doing mischievous things. He gets sent to his room without supper. A forest starts to grow in his bedroom and the walls became a new world. He went over to where the wild things are and even though they “roared their terrible roars”; “Garnished their terrible teach”, “rolled their terrible eyes” and “showed their terrible claws” Max was able to tame them with his magic trick. Max was soon named king of all wild things. Max sent the wild things to bed without supper and Max became very lonely. He suddenly smells some supper, gets on his boat and heads home to find his supper on his dresser, and it was still hot.  I really enjoyed this book. I loved it as a child and I still love it now. The book to me has many meanings. It is the comfort of knowing you’re loved by another and that people will always be there for you. This book also lets your mind run free. It is so creative and interesting and it still makes me wonder and thing to this day! By far the most amazing part of this book is the illustrations. They are amazing and so detailed. Overall, this book is a great read for a young child.  The author, Maurice Sendak has illustrated more than a hundred picture books throughout his 60-year career. Some of his best known books include //Chicken Soup with Rice//, //Where the Wild Things Are//, and //In the Night Kitchen//. . He has won numerous awards as both an artist and illustrator, including a Caldecott Award, a Newberry Medal, the international Hans Christian Andersen Award, a National Book Award, the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and a National Medal of Arts. His books continue to be read by millions of children and adults and have been translated into dozens of languages and enjoyed all over the world. Sendak, Maurice. //Where the Wild Things Are.// [New York]: Harper & Row, 1963. Print
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