Where the Wild Things Are


Where the Wild Things Are 
Maurice Sendak
Haper & Roe
First Published 1963
FTC: Library Copy
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 realizes it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all. 

I adore the childlike whimsical romp with beasts. Throughout the book, Max becomes his Mother in the way he deals with things and he quickly returns to reality. The books mention a year but we know the concept of time to a child is often like a big fish story- much larger than in reality. The tone of the book is unconditional love and teaches to trust the end result of a process.