Here are some of our favourite illustrations from the book: What a wonderful description of a tantrum! So he gives up being king of all wild things and decides to sail back to his room, where he finds his supper waiting for him, 'still hot'. Suddenly the boy feels lonely and not quite as wild anymore. A wild rumpus ensues until Max orders them all to stop and sends them off to bed without their supper. Max manages to tame them 'by staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once' and these creatures -upon closer inspection, charmingly goofy and altogether harmless- immediately make him King of all Wild Things. Here he is met by a group of apparently fearful roar-roaring, teeth-gnashing, eye-rolling, claw-showing monsters. In the loneliness of his bedroom, Max dreams up a leafy world of thick forest that takes him on a boat 'through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year to where the wild things are'. The story opens with Max dressed in a wolf suit, running about his house making mischief until he gets sent to bed without any supper. Where the Wild Things Are is a journey of a little boy called Max from the solitary confinement of his bedroom, where he has been sent 'without eating anything' for what would now be termed some 'time-out', to the land where the the Wild Things are and then back to the cosiness of his bedroom and the warmth of his supper.
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