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A special new edition with a read-along CD.
Jacqueline Wilson, February 2012 Guest Editor: "The text is very minimal but perfect - and the illustrations are glorious. This isn't a scary book in the slightest, though the monsters are grotesque, equipped with very sharp teeth and pointy claws. Little Max in his wolf suit tames them instantly and they declare him king of all wild things. But Max is still a little boy and although he has uproarious fun in the land of the wild things he's clearly glad to be back home where his supper is waiting for him. I've read this story to countless children and they've all loved it, especially when they join in, roaring their terrible roars, gnashing their terrible teeth, rolling their terrible eyes and showing their terrible claws."
Julia Eccleshare: A classic story of the power of a childhood tantrum.
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Where the Wild Things are Book and CD Synopsis
Read-along with the story in this book and CD edition!
One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9781782955030 |
| Publication date: |
27th August 2015 |
| Author: |
Maurice Sendak |
| Publisher: |
Red Fox an imprint of Random House Children's Publishers UK |
| Format: |
Other |
| Pagination: |
48 pages |
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Press Reviews
Maurice Sendak Press Reviews
'Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm and the design are all wonderful.' S Magazine, Sunday Express
'The key to Sendak's success and to the continuing hipness of his book, is that it's hero is not a good child ... the book is, in fact, extraordinarily childcentric, a book written for and about terrible infants, the kind of terrible infants that most children really are and that all adults remain for much of the time' -- David Baddiel The Times
'This is my never-fail picture book. The text is very short, but utterly perfect, the illustrations are tremendous' -- Jacqueline Wilson
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About Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and he remains the only American ever awarded this honor. In 1983 Sendak received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, given in recognition of his entire body of work. He also received a 1996 National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the Arts in America. Maurice Sendak died in May 2012.
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