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Julia Eccleshare's comment:

When Max is sent to bed without any supper for making mischief, he sets off on an amazing adventure across the sea to the land where he meets the ‘wild things’. The wild things roar their terrible roar and gnash their terrible teeth and roll their terrible eyes and show their terrible claws. Brave Max isn’t scared. He tames the wild things and is made their King just in time to join in their rumpus before he returns to the safety of his own bedroom – and a bowl of steaming hot supper. A classic story of the power of a childhood tantrum.

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About The Author

Maurice Sendak received the 1964 Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. In 1970 he received the international Hans Christian Andersen Medal for illustration, and he remains the only American ever awarded this honor. In 1983 Sendak received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award from the American Library Association, given in recognition of his entire body of work. He also received a 1996 National Medal of Arts in recognition of his contribution to the Arts in America.
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