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Summary: Review of Where The Wild Things Are
Review: This book was one of my all time favorites as a child and I had a great time reading it as an adult. The story and illutrations fill your head with crazy pictures of wild things dancing around. As a child these wild things were a little scary looking at first but you begin to love them and sometimes wish that your room could change into one just like Max's. You could sail away and be crazy with the wild things and not get in trouble. This book offers so much fantasy to children, it is a great way to get their imagination going wild.
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Summary: May the Rumpus never end.
Review: They're not called the "terrible two's" for nothing and the brilliance of this tale is in the fact Maurice Sendak has miraculously captured the rebellious and imaginative force of those in the thrall of the "terrible two's" in a way that anyone of any age can empathize with and appreciate.Max. in typical terrible two fashion, has been a bit disrespectful to mom and is his room-sent there without his supper. A magical world arises and Max is transported to where the Wild Things are--whimsical "monsters" who manage to look both scary and ridiculous at the same time. Max, empowered in this world as he never is in his own, becomes ruler in this world and "manages" the rumpus that characterizes it--why, he even has the power to deny the monsters their own suppers! In the end, however, Max decides to return to his room--to discover that though gone, he was not forgotten. This is a truly marvelous book. It's fun to read aloud, allowing the reader to be as expressive and dramatic as he wishes. The illustrations are delightful--colorful, action filled and, best of all, always a true complement to the story at all times. One of the best children's books ever written. May the Rumpus never end!
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Summary: Where the Wild Things Are : A book for all ages
Review: I am currently in my last year of college and one of my professors just recently read us a children's book. I was quite surprised when it turned out to be Where the Wild Things Are. Although this is a children's book, everyone enjoyed hearing the story about Max and his magical journey. Where the Wild Things Are is by far one of the best children's books ever written and illustrated. I loved it as a child and I still love it as an adult. The book provides children a chance to use their imagination. This is a book that I will use both as a teacher and with my own children someday. Whether you like the story itself or you just like to look at the illustrations, this is definitely a book for people of all ages. A must have for every classroom and household.
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Summary: A Wild Rumpus
Review: Max is sometimes a "wild thing". Sometimes when he is he gets sent to his room for time out. The reader is allowed to enter Max's mind where the wild rumpus is. He recreates himself as monsters who also like to be wild. Sendak lets us see these wild things and the fun they have being wild. Max is not always wild and when he has calmed down his mom brings his supper to his room and Max knows he is loved here "best of all". Children of all ages know the truth of Max's story.
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Summary: You too will want to draw pictures like Maurice Sendak
Review: I have thought about it and I have considered it and it seems to me now so very obvious that "Where the Wild Things Are" is the best illustrated children's story in the history of the entire world, with the emphasis on the word "illustrated." There are entire children's books that do not use as much black ink as Maurice Sendak works into the illustration on the first page. You would have to go back to John Tenniel's famous work for "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" to find artwork that makes as profound an impression upon young and old alike. The story is disarmingly simple, with young Max not letting the fact he has been sent to his room without his supper because he has been acting like a "WILD THING" ruin his evening. Children might dream of traveling for almost over a year to become king of all wild things, but it will be the exquisitely detailed artwork that will stay with them forever. Give to this book to any child and watch how it affects their future attempts at drawing. There is something to be said for having attention to detail and we can only guess at the number of young artists who had that idea seared into their souls by looking at the "pictures" in this wonderful book.
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Summary: Still one of the best
Review: My mother purchased this book for me when I was little along with Harry the Dirty Dog and The Happy Egg I fell in love with them both. Well I have moved several times over the years and managed to damage several books including the ones listed. Well lets just say that I enjoyed these books enough to search many book stores and online auctions to replace them because the stores are timeless. I really enjoy Where the Wild Things Are because when I was younger I was afraid of monsters and things that were hidden in the shawdows and this book lets you know that there is a bit of the monster in us all and that there is no reason to be afraid. I also like the fact that the book shows that when a parent punishes a child it does not mean that there is a loss of love. I recommend this book to anyone with or without kids and if you like this the other two listed may also be something you will like. And if you can find a copy of the Happy Egg anywhere grab it along with Happiness Is a Warm Puppy another one of my favorites. Thanks for reading this and I hope it was helpful. Also who needs Harry Potter when you have such classics.
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Summary: One of the Classics
Review: One book on the list of books every child, in every country, should be familiar with. As a mother, a grandmother and a teacher I can verify the popularity of this book as well as the on-going memories of the pictures and the text. A book for generations of children and their parents, grandparents and teachers. Unforgettable.
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Summary: Where the wild things are
Review: Where the wild things are is a good example of a chidren's book that most people would want their children to read. It is great for their imaginations: Forests growing in rooms, monsters becoming friends with a child, it can make them think past reality. It also has lots of colorful and creative illustrations
for even more imagination. The one thing this book lacks is a moral. Not that all children's books should have morals, but for a famous book like this, it would have made it better.
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Summary: Memorable.
Review: Max is a mischievous boy and gets sent to bed without his supper. A forest grows in his room, and his wild rumpus continues in the forest and out to sea. Max lands on an island where the wild things live. But they aren't really scary. Sendak's illustrations are fantastic. I love them more now than I did as a child. Max leads the wild things in a wild rumpus - there's howling and dancing and swinging in the trees. But all this excitement makes Max hungry and he misses his home. Max decides to leave and sails back to his room where his mother has left him his supper, and it is still hot. If you've read it before then read it now to your child. Don't miss this one!
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Summary: Wild Things Revisited
Review: I read "Where the Wild Things Are" to my sister in the sixties, to my three children in the seventies, and to my grandchildren in the new millenium. It is a favorite of all. My son is so fond of it he asked me to give a copy to his son for Christmas.
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