Really wild (Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak)

Member Name: mumsymary

Product:	Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak
Date:	27/05/03 (228 review reads)
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Advantages: great, good for encoraging early reading

Disadvantages: none

Where the wild things are. Story and pictures by Maurice Sendex.

I read this to my class today the children loved it and thought I would tell you about this book,

First Ii will give you the details then tell you the storyplot

This book published by picture lions Written by Maurice Sendak in 1963 I was surprised to see how long Ago it was published as it has not date at all .
This book won a Caldecott medal for the most distinguished picture book of the year 1964.

The Story is written in easy to read fairly large print.It is suitable for children aged between 4 and 8
The story is about Max who? one night wore his wolf suit and made mischief (remind you of anyone?) you see a picture of him hanging his teddy and chasing the dog. His mother calls him wild thing and Max said ? I?ll eat you up! so he was sent to bed? without anything to eat as punishment

That night he had an adventure his room grew a forest with trees and vines. An ocean appeared and he sailed away in a boat.
He sailed to where the wild things are

The wild things were terrible with roars and teeth and terrible eyes and claws quite frightening.
Max tames these wild things with magic and the wild things were frightened of him. They made Max ? king of all wild things?.

Then the rumpus starts 3 pages of wild things jumping up and down roaring gleefully , swinging on trees carrying Max on their shoulders
Max says stop and sends the wild things to bed?
he was lonely and wanted to be where ?someone loved him best of all?
He sailed away ?The wild things cried please don?t go ?we love you so? They roared and max waved goodbye.
He reached his own room? supper was waiting for him still warm? although he had been away for a year and a day?.


The illustrations are brilliant. The faces full of the emotions , gleeful, sad, The wild things are magnificent large , hairy lots of claws and horns but
so
mehow these illustrations are not scary The wild things have big popeyed faces with big toothy grins lovely facial expressions lots of hair.

This story is great to read. Get the children really involved be wild things have a rumpus and then if you are reading to your own children snuggle them up safe.
Thanks for reading Mary

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