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Genre/Form: | Picture books for children Fantasy Paper case bindings Illustrated case bindings Illustrated endpapers Book jackets Fantasy fiction Fiction Juvenile works Dust jackets (Bindings) Juvenile literature Authors' autographs (Provenance) Juvenile fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sendak, Maurice. Where the wild things are. [New York] : Harper & Row, ©1963 (OCoLC)894925534 |
Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maurice Sendak; Harper & Row, Publishers, |
ISBN: | 0060254939 9780060254933 9780758700285 0758700288 9780060254926 0060254920 9780064430555 0064430553 0370007727 9780370007724 0099408392 9780099408390 9780064431781 0064431789 9780060255206 006025520X 059004513X 9780590045131 9781435208926 1435208927 |
OCLC Number: | 225496 |
Notes: | LC copy in dust jacket and signed by the author. |
Awards: | Caldecott Medal, 1964 |
Target Audience: | AD740L |
Description: | 40 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm |
Responsibility: | Maurice Sendak. |
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"Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm and the design are all wonderful." * S Magazine, Sunday Express * "The greatest picture book ever written" -- Chris Riddell, Children's Laureate * Guardian * "The key to Sendak's success and to the continuing hipness of his book, is that it's hero is not a good child . . . the book is, in fact, extraordinarily childcentric, a book written for and about terrible infants, the kind of terrible infants that most children really are and that all adults remain for much of the time" -- David Baddiel * The Times * "This is my never-fail picture book. The text is very short, but utterly perfect, the illustrations are tremendous" -- Jacqueline Wilson "Gripping, ingenious and uplifting . . . a shrewd, fierce, healing book" -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * Read more...
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Great book for kids
I loved this book, but my son is a little young for it. He is scared by the monsters with their very big teeth and very big claws. Be careful, because this is one that can cause nightmares. It works well once kids approach 5 years old.
Of course, it's a classic, and...
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I loved this book, but my son is a little young for it. He is scared by the monsters with their very big teeth and very big claws. Be careful, because this is one that can cause nightmares. It works well once kids approach 5 years old.
Of course, it's a classic, and is a must for every older child's library.
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