Where The Wild Things Are
This is a classic favorite and it is a fantastic book. My wife was read this one as a child. We read this one over and over and I would definitely buy this and give it as a gift. One of my little one’s favorite reads.
The story is creative and unique, especially in how it narrates the little boy’s (the main character) imagination. The little boy creates his own world after being sent to his room alone as punishment for bad behavior. The story moves well and keeps our little one’s attention the entire book. There’s a line about time and how it moves that hints at the reality behind the imagination of the story and speaks to how creative the author and story are. The drawings are done in a realistic manner and blend the reality of the story with the boy’s imagination perfectly. The illustrations also add value to the words, with a couple pages perfectly adding to the story without saying anything.
Cautions: We did not read this book to our little one until she got to the point where she understood make believe and we could talk to her about right and wrong. The book contains bad behavior by the main character and monsters that care for the little boy, yet seem like they are trying to scare him at certain points. The story also includes a punishment by the parents for the little boy, sending him to his room without dinner, that parents nowadays may or may not agree with (most likely culturally acceptable when the book was written). When we first read it, and sometimes even now, my little one asks questions like
What is he doing to the dog? Why did he have to go to bed without food? Are the monsters bad?
