Sent to his room, Max sails off "through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year"

Author/Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Published: HarperCollins, 1963

Sent to his room, Max sails off "through night and day and in and out of weeks and almost over a year" to the place where the wild things are. And in one of the most-fun-to-read-aloud run-on sentences in children's listerature, The wild things "roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws." But Max tames the wild things and becomes their king until he gets lonely and hungry and sails back to his room and dinner. Countless articles and interview and speeches have all testified to what children and adults intuit just from reading Sendak's masterpiece: Where the Wild Things Are has somehow tapped precisely into young children's anger and imagniation and, in doing so, wields a tremendous power.