Where The Wild Things Are By Candida Eittreim on - Updated Oct 15, 2011
When my children were small and naughty, there were times when I was hard pressed for ideas to help them express their frustrations with limits they tested daily. Providing them with a secure, consistent, structured environment was important to David and I.
One day, while browsing B.Dalton for more children's books, I happened on Where The Wild Things Are. Sitting down, I read it cover to cover, and bought it. Here was the perfect vehicle for dealing with childhood frustrations concerning discipline.
Maurice Sendak, using classic simple language, creates a magical tale of a little boy and what happens when he's sent to his room. The boy, upset that he's been sent off, creates a magical world of friendly monsters who (unlike his parents), respond to his imperious command: Be Still! The monsters are not frightening, but loveable and rather slow. They get up to all sorts of adventures with the child, until at last, tiring of it all, he goes home to his room. Where he finds a snack waiting, and realizes how very much he is loved.
This is a wonderful book. We used it to open up important dialogue with our children, while reading the story. I highly recommend Where The Wild Things are for children ages 5- as old as 8.
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Maurice Sendak Hardcover Purchased at: B.Dalton Price: $8.99
I just read this book to my son over the weekend!! He was totally fascinated with the beautiful illustrations!! I loved this too when I was a little girl!
This is another truly wonderful children's book, that has lasted for generations and will last for more. I love both the text and the illustrations, and so do the kids I've read it too. They were all, oddly, the Wildest Thing of All when I started, and yet very snuggly when I finished!
I loved this book when I was a child, now that you reminded me of it, I am going to go buy it for my sons.
I LOVED this book when I was a little! I read it to my older childeren and I will be reading it to my new baby as soon a she is old enough to sit still long enough!