Where the Wild Things Are

Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.

SLJ

Each word has been carefully chosen and the simplicity of the language is quite deceptive.

Sometimes dark, sometimes gleefully silly, but always inventive, intelligent, and colorful, Maurice Sendak s imaginatively illustrated children s books never forget their audience. Although his classic Where the Wild Things Are was criticized upon its initial publication for being too frightening, children responded with enthusiasm to both its wonderfully zany artwork as well as to its honesty. Forty years later, they still do.