Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
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. |
Customer Reviews
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 Adventure Bracketed by Good Parenting, Apr 9, 2023
Our story begins in Max's house, where Max is running wild. When he gets sassy with his Mom, he is sent to his room without his supper. In his room, his imagination transports him away. As the story builds, the pictures build, climaxing in three two-page, full-bleed illustrations depicting the wild rumpus of Max & his new friends.
Max's attention wanders back to thoughts of home, and the story retreats there, too. As the story pulls back, so do the illustrations, with the final words filling a page absent of drawings.
The monsters are cute without being cutesy, and Max's adventure is sandwiched between his mother's discipline and her tender gesture of love.
1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
Hooway for Woodney Rat, Mar 31, 2023
This book is about a little rodent named Woodney who is always teased and laughed at by his classmates. His classmates laugh at him because he doesn't know how to pernounce the letter r, instead he pernouces it like the letter w. But, then one day a new rodent arrives in to their class, her name was Camilla. She starts bulling all the other rodents, so now all the other rodents feel uncomfortable by it. Then one day they all go outside and play, the teacher tells Woodeny to be the leader of the game. Woodney did something that made Camilla go away forever, so now all the little rodents thank him.
I think that the book was great! It teaches you a great lesson. You shouldn't judge others by the way they are, or do something.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Wonderful read!, Mar 31, 2023
This book a great! The beginning starts out with a boy who won't eat his food and gets sent to his room. At his room, the facinating wild things come to the boy. The pictures in this book were fantasting and the main plot is just amazing. The author brought all of the charachters to life with simple vocabulary that any child could understand. I recomend this book 100%! This book will blow you away!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
Where The Wild Things Are, Mar 30, 2023
Where the Wild Things Are is such a great book. I am an adult and it is one of my favorite books. I read it to my three year old niece eight times in a row. She loved it and she "read" it to me too. I even read it to my friends who have infants. I can't stress enough how wonderful this book is. The pictures and the charcters are AMAZING! I recommend this book to everyone.
0 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
 Scary, Mar 27, 2023
Bad role model and scary pictures. I should have read the negative reviews before buying this. I'm going to throw it out after one read.
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