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    Maurice Sendak, first published in 1963 in the USA by Harper and Rowe. Sendak uses layout in an interesting way throughout the book, which feels cinematic in approach. The first six illustrations gradually increase in size, until the illustration fills a single page. It creates a feeling of the viewer zooming in on the scene. It also carries the idea in the text of a forest, that ‘grew and grew- and grew until the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around’ (Sendak, 2000,p)

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    Over the course of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Max, the protagonist, displays in many ways that he is influenced by his mother. The story begins with Max misbehaving in a wolf suit and getting punished by her for it. After being sent to his room, his mind conjured a place where he could experience what it’s like to be in control. Max himself is a wild thing, and when he arrives at the island with the other wild things, he wants to understand why he was punished so he tames them.

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    1. Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak is an exuberant picture book which will make it a fun and exciting read. The compressed language will guide children easily throughout the book. Sendak promotes a touching message of unconditional love, a message that even if one misbehaves, there will be supper waiting on the table (Max does get sent to his room, but no matter how much he has misbehaved, his mother will always love him and cherish him). Sendak also dives into deeper psychological emotions

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    The rambunctious and mischievous children’s short storybook, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, is not an appropriate book for young children to read. Where The Wild Things Are is a story of a rebellious young child named Max. One night, Max puts on his wolf suit and creates mayhem and mischief. His frustrated mother banishes him to his room and labels him a ‘Wild Thing’. In Max's room, a whole new world appears with overgrown trees, dangling vines, and ominous oceans. Max travels to the

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    Where the Wild Things Are written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, is one of my all-time favorite children’s book because as a little girl, I remember before going to bed and picking out this book for my father to read to me. My father had a wonderful speaking voice that allowed for these characters to come alive in my mind. I could imagine being the protagonist character Max, and sailing off to place full monsters and mystery. There is a part in the middle of the story called “The Wild Rumpus”

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    “Where the Wild Things Are” is an illustrated story by Maurice Sendak intended for children. This story clearly narrate the targeted audience – the children – the story of Max, a disobedient boy who ran away from home after being scolded vehemently by his mother. Due to Max’s reckless behavior, his mother furiously “sent him to bed without eating anything” (Sendak 8). After living together with the scary monsters in a place called Where the Wild Things Are, Max decided to return home since he could

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    Poor Parenting can cause poorly behaved children 'Where The Wild Things Are' was first published in 1963 and is the first part of a trilogy of award - winning books by American author and illustrator Maurice Sendak. 'Where The Wild Things Are' is haunting and imaginative and describes how a young child, called Max, creates a fictitious fantasy world in order to deal with the terrifying reality of anger. Poor parenting is a lack of parenting techniques and skills in relation to the responsibilities

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    aspect of children’s literature gives an ability to grow a child mentally and develop their ideas and imagination. In early literature, children were romanized to be perfect and well behaved. Author Maurice Sendak counters the idea of a perfect child in his book “Where The Wild Things Are”. Sendak uses his picture book to illustrate a child’s ability to have feelings of anger, resentment, and frustration. The interviewer, Patrick F. Roughen of Red Feather Journal states that“Where the Wild Things Are

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    Annotated List of Books Sendak, M. (1962). Chicken soup with rice: A book of months. New York: Harper & Row. A boy eating his chicken soup with rice throughout the different months of the year Sendak, M. (1962). Pierre, a cautionary tale: In five chapters and a prologue. New York: Harper & Row. A boy named Pierre who usually doesn’t care about anything, learns to care after an encounter with a lion. Sendak, M. (1963). Where the wild things are. New York: Harper & Row. A boy named Max misbehaves and

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    books the boys mistreat people and things around them and take them for granted. It can be so easy to treat people badly so we must be aware of how we treat the people and things around us. In the book Where the Wild Things Are the author Maurice Sendak writes his main character to be very rude to his mother and later he also mistreats the monsters. In the book The Giving Tree the author Shel Silverstein has the main character mistreat the tree. Both these books follow young boys who don’t seem to

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