Where The Wild Things Are: 60th Anniversary Edition (Caldecott Collection) (Puffin Picture Books) (Literature Kit)

by Maurice Sendak

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Voted as the greatest children's book of all time in BBC Culture poll.

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.

  • ISBN10 0099408392
  • ISBN13 9780099408390
  • Publish Date 4 May 2000 (first published 1 January 1967)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
  • Imprint Red Fox
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 48
  • Language English