Where the Wild Things Are
By Maurice Sendak; Maurice Sendak (Illustrator)
(HarperCollins, Library Binding, 9780060254933, 48pp.)
Publication Date: November 9, 1988
Other Editions of This Title: Hardcover, Paperback, , Prebound
Categories: Bedtime & Dreams, Bedtime Stories, Classics
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Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.
Winner, 1964 Caldecott Medal
Notable Children's Books of 1940–1970 (ALA)
1981 Boston Globe–Horn Book Award for Illustration
1963, 1982 Fanfare Honor List (The Horn Book)
Best Illustrated Children's Books of 1963, 1982 (NYT)
A Reading Rainbow Selection
1964 Lewis Carroll Shelf Award
Children's Books of 1981 (Library of Congress)
1981 Children's Books (NY Public Library)
100 Books for Reading and Sharing 1988 (NY Public Library)
Maurice Sendak received the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. He has also received the Hans Christian Andersen Medal, the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the National Medal of Arts, and the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award.
The author of Where The Wild Things Are talks about his childhood and the funny-looking older relatives upon whom he based the creatures in the book. More at NPR.org
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