Author: Maurice Sendak
Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Awards: Caldecott
Grade level: K-3rd
This is an amazing book about a young imaginative boy named Max, who had lots of energy and was misbehaving so got sent to bed without dinner. He falls asleep and dreams of an amazing adventure where he travels to the land where the wild things are. The island has many fierce monsters, but Max isn't scared of them at all, and that's when the monsters realize he is the wildest of them all and the monsters decide to make him their king. They then begin the rumpus, which consists of many wild things such as dancing and swinging from trees. Max eventually decides he must go home, and when he arrives home, he found his dinner waiting for him.
I love love love this book! I will definitely have this book in my classroom. It allows students to be creative and enjoy a story about a young child they can relate to! I chose the grade range to be K-3rd because even though the younger children can't read the story, they are able to get an idea of what is happening in the story because of the detailed pictures. I would use this story in my class by reading it to the students and having them create their own "wild things".
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