Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book authored and illustrated by American author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, and first published in hardcover by Harper and Row. It has been filmed in other media a couple of times, as an animated short in 1973 (with a revised version in 1988); as an opera in 1980; and as a feature film in 2009. As of 2009, more than 19 million copies of the book had been sold in various parts of the world, of which 10 million were in the United States alone[3].
In 1964, Sendak was awarded the annual Caldecott Medal by the children's librarians, Where the Wild Things Are being their choice as the past year's most worthy picture book of the children. In a 2012 survey among readers of School Library Journal it has been voted the top picture book, not the first.
Plot
The story talks about a small boy Max who, when he puts on his wolf suit, causes so much devastation in his home that he is sent to bed without his supper. Max converts his bedroom into a jungle and he ends up sailing to an island populated by monsters, known as the Wild Things. The Wild Things attempt to frighten Max to no effect. Having stopped and threatened the animals, Max is proclaimed the ruler of the Wild Things and plays an amusing game with his subjects. At last Max intervenes and takes them to bed without supper. But, much to the disappointment of the Wild Things, he begins to feel lonely and opts to abdicate and go home. The animals are not wishing Max to leave and plunge into frenzies of anger as he sails serenely home. When Max comes back to his bedroom, he finds he has a hot supper prepared.
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