Creating mischief of one kind and another
One evening Max creates mischief "of one kind and another" and his mother sends him to his room without supper. That night his imagination grows a forest in his room where he discovers the land Where the Wild Things Are.
Together Max and the Wild Things create mischief and have a wonderful time until Max sends them to bed without their supper, just as his mother did to him.
Max decides to leave despite their pleas, and returns home to find his supper waiting for him. Hot.
Where the Wild Things Are is a much loved book which won the Caldecott medal in 1964. Maurice Sendak also illustrated the book with magnificent pen and ink drawings that tell the story better than words.
Children will love looking at the pictures and following the story. Several pages are only pictures with no words on the pages, the rest of the text in the book is simple with only a line or two or sometimes just a couple of words to a page.
"they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws"
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Contents
- Buy Where the Wild Things Are Here
- President Obama Reads Where The Wild Things Are
- Interview with Maurice Sendak
- Did you know that all the monsters had names?
- Movie Trailer
- Learn more about the Where The Wild Things Are Movie here
- Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook
- The Wild Things: Fur Covered Edition
- Claymation of Where The Wild Things Are
- Do you have a wild thing?
- Video Adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are
- Put on a Where the Wild Things Are puppet show
- Wild Thing Puppets
- Visit the Sendak Gallery
- More Books by Maurice Sendak
- Do You Read Aloud?
- Where The Wild Things Are Pajamas
- Is this a favourite book?
- More Where The Wild Things Are
President Obama Reads Where The Wild Things Are
White House Easter Egg Roll. Mon. April 13, 2009
Where the Wild Things Are is a wonderful classic read-aloud that every family should own.
Interview with Maurice Sendak
Facing the Frightful Things
11 October 1993
These Days, Maurice Sendak's Wild Creatures Are
Homelessness, AIDS and Violence--Big Issues for Small Kids
by Pamela Warrick
- Interview with Maurice Sendak
"At first," says Sendak, "the book was to be called 'Where the Wild Horses Are,' but when it became apparent to my editor I could not draw horses, she kindly changed the title to 'Wild Things,' with the idea that I could at the very least draw 'a thing'! So I drew my relatives. They're all dead now, so I can tell people."
Did you know that all the monsters had names?
Wild Thing Plushies
Did you know the monsters have names?
Moishe, Bernard, Tzippy, Sipi, Aaron and Emil.
All are named after Sendak's uncles.
Movie Trailer
Where the Wild Things Are Movie Trailer due to be released October 16th, 2009
Learn more about the Where The Wild Things Are Movie here
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Where The Wild Things Are Movie
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Where the Wild Things Are is an adaptation of the classic children's story by Maurice Sendak . Pre-order the soundtrack now In the book, Max is a little boy who misbehaves and is sent to bed without his supper. He imagines a fa...
Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook
A new look for the book
Where the Wild Things Are: The Movie Storybook
Where the Wild Things Are hardcover book with photos from the new movie.
48 pages
Amazon Price: $9.35 (as of 12/18/2009)
The Wild Things: Fur Covered Edition
Not the original story
*** This is not the original story.
The Wild Things - based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay cowritten with Spike Jonze - is about the confusions of a boy, Max, making his way in a world he can't control. His father is gone, his mother is spending time with a younger boyfriend, his sister is becoming a teenager and no longer has interest in him. At the same time, Max finds himself capable of startling acts of wildness: he wears a wolf suit, bites his mom, and can't always control his outbursts. During a fight at home, Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Funny, dark, and alive, The Wild Things is a timeless and time-tested tale for all ages.
The Wild Things (Fur-covered Edition)
Amazon Price: $18.48 (as of 12/17/2009)
Claymation of Where The Wild Things Are
Do you have a wild thing?
Video Adaptation of Where the Wild Things Are
Put on a Where the Wild Things Are puppet show
Create your own Wild Thing puppet show with the puppets below. Creating puppet shows was one of my favourite activities when I was growing up, and my daughters have also enjoyed doing this. Make your own or buy puppets and have someone read the story while the puppeteers act out the show.
Or
Dress up as characters from the book and put on a play.
Wild Thing Puppets
Max in his wolf costume
Visit the Sendak Gallery
Located at the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia
- Sendak Gallery
The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia is home to over 10,000 original works by author/illustrator Maurice Sendak. The Maurice Sendak Gallery features year-round exhibitions of the author's original illustrations, manuscripts, and personal collections.
More Books by Maurice Sendak
Vote for your favorites, or add any I missed.
Please only add books written by Maurice Sendak. Sendak is also a wonderful illustrator and has illustrated many books by other authors.
Do You Read Aloud?
Do you read aloud to your child? Is this a period of time during the day that you enjoy?
Where The Wild Things Are Pajamas
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Is this a favourite book?
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- arncyn arncyn Nov 30, 2009 @ 4:57 am
- I've loved this book for so long and am very excited to see director Spike Jonze's vision for the movie. The trailers are looking amazing so far. Great lens. I also wanted to bring to your attention to the pop-up version of the book (engineered by the Sabuda-Reinhart duo in coop. with Sendak -- it's fantastic) because you might want to include it on this page. (:
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- kimmanleyort kimmanleyort Nov 17, 2009 @ 12:29 pm
- Excellent review. This seems to be a favorite book of many and I'm looking forward to seeing the movie. Will be featuring this in SquidLit review on Crabbysbeach.
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- Stazjia Stazjia Nov 6, 2009 @ 8:56 am
- An excellent lens about Where the Wild Things Are - Blessed by an Angel.
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- mitchking mitchking Nov 3, 2009 @ 4:52 pm
- This was a wonderful movie and it got my kids into reading the book.
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- Artemus-Gordon Artemus-Gordon Nov 3, 2009 @ 2:01 pm
- This is an excellent children's book. The best part is Hollywood did not ruin this movie like they do so many other books when they put them on the big screen.
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