Where the Wild Things Are

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Summary: This book is inappropriate for my four year old.
Review: I don't understand how this book is on the best seller's list. The illustrations are scary for young children. The educational value of this book is very negative. Instead of teaching of self discipline and respect for authority, this book promotes disobedience and violence. I know, for years, it has received glowing reviews. I disagree with all of them. This book entered the trash can the day it entered our home.

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Summary: Outstanding
Review: This wonderful book has held the attention of my 2 1/2 year old for over an HOUR. Even Dr. Seuss hasn't done that. In less than a month, my 2 1/2 year old son has memorized the book and now "reads" it to me - over and over and over and over. The author has done an amazing job of telling the story of a boy who gets in trouble and uses his imagination to resolve his anger. In some places, the book leaves people unspecified. Areas like "he wanted to be where someone loved him best of all" and when his supper was waiting on the table allow the person reading the story - Mom, Dad, Grandma, Grandpa - to insert themselves into the story and pronounce their love for the child.

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Summary: CHILDREN LOVE IT, VERY INTERESTING STORY
Review: My children loved the story, they want me to read it over andover again. I enjoyed the book myself as well, great story.

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Summary: Wonderful tale for little monsters!
Review: WE love this book!!! Anything by Maurice Sendak is a work of art. My boys enjoy the Little Bear books from my childhood! We love stories to far off lands we can see in our dreams! This book was given to us by a lifelong friend and teacher THANKS!!!

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Summary: My Favorite book of all time.
Review: My mother picked this book up when it was first published in1963. Max was my first hero. The library branch she borrowed it fromwouldn't see Max and his wild thing friends again for almost a year. Every night, my mother read it to me until i could recite it along with her. I learned to read from this amazing book. It has been 36 years since i first cracked open the new spine of this wonderful book. As a journalist I have had to read thousands of books to keep up with events, changing historys and the latest in new fiction, and of all those books, this still remains the finest, most thoughtful book i have ever read. It lives at #1 on my top ten list, where by the way it has made a very cozy home because it's chances of being moved are non-existant. It is the first book i buy my family and friends new children, it always has a home beneath my christmas tree, on my book shelf and most of all in my heart.

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Summary: Great, inspiring work of literature.
Review: "...and Max said 'I'LL EAT YOU UP!' " This fantastic, creative book will eat up your imagination and make you hungry for more. Through its vibrant pictures and descriptive wording, Where the Wild Things Are will mystify the young and the young at heart. When I was a child, this book sparked my imaginative "fire" that has continued to grow till this very day. Where the Wild Things Are will continue to entertain and inspire generations to come. The little boy, Max, will take you on a journey through his magical forest that you are not soon to forget.

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Summary: I absolutely love this book-both as an adult and as a child
Review: I just love this book. It, along with GOODNIGHT MOON, was my favorite childhood story. In fact, I even named my son Max, after the main character. Although he is only 5 weeks old, I have already read it to hime several times.

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Summary: A boy's imagination takes him where the wild thing are.
Review: This short children's book, which won the 1964 Caldecott Medal for best illustrations in a book for children, is about a boy (who has gotten into trouble because he has been unruly) whose imagination takes him to a land where he becomes King of the Wild Things. This is a great book. The only thing unfortunate about it is that it wasn't around when I was a child. Many scholars regard this book as important in understanding and visualizing children's dreams and imagination. The New York Times listed the book as one of the major works in children literature. It should be on the shelf of any serious student of children literature; but then, it undoubtedly already is.

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Summary: excellent book for children ages 2 to 90
Review: our 3 year old son loves this book so muc that we have borrowed it from the library indefinitely... or at least when we locate our own copy. This is a book that he can sit down and open up and enjoy on his own.

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Summary: All things wild...
Review: This was my favorite book as a small child. At the age of 14, all my of childhood books were boxed up for storage but were mistakenly taken to a yard sale instead of being packed away. I spent a year of my life living the 'college experience' before coming back home. Upon my return, a copy of this book had found its way onto my nightstand. Maybe it's that I hadn't seen it in years, but I'd forgotten how amazing this book really is. It seemed to perfectly fit as a metaphor for what the past year of my life had become... when I had gone off to live where the wild things are, only to find the light to still be on when I came back home.

I realise this book has been around much longer than I have, but I know it will live on to touch our lives for many generations to come.