Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
A young boy named Max, dressed in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. In his room, a mysterious, wild forest and sea grows out of his imagination, and Max sails to the land of the Wild Things. The Wild Things are fearsome-looking monsters, but Max conquers them by “staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once”, and he is made the king of all wild things. However, he soon finds himself lonely and homesick and returns home to his bedroom where he finds his supper waiting for him, still hot.
The 420th greatest book of all time
- Published
- 1963
- Nationality
- American
- Type
- Fiction
- Pages
- 40
- Words
- 338
- Original Language
- English
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- 1st on 100 Greatest Childrens Books of All Time (BBC)
- 73rd on Koen Book Distributors Top 100 Books of the Past Century (themodernnovel.com)
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- The 75 Best Books of the Past 75 Years (Parade Magazine)
- Books That Shaped America (Library of Congress)
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- The New York Public Library's Books of the Century (New York Public Library)