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Max dresses up in his wild wolf costume and causes mischief and ends up telling his mother “I’ll eat you up!” Because of this Max is sent to bed. That night he travels far away into where the wild things live.
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Summary of Professional Reviews:Review by Kimberly Jones:
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Sendak portrays children as people coping with complex emotions such as anger, fear, frustration, wonder, and awareness of their own vulnerability. Children and adults are able to relate themselves to this book by peering into their "wild side". This book has encouraged works of a motion picture, an opera, and the imagination of future generations to come.
I believe this book can be relatable to any child such as getting into trouble and being sent to their room where they then daydream or imagine a place far away. The pictures are big and colorful; they take up most of the page to help draw the child’s attention. There are not that many words on each page so you are able to keep the children engaged in the reading by being able to look at new pictures. |
This book would be useful when teaching children about understanding our emotions and how to control them. We can use this book to point out certain times in the book when you can see Max's emotions. We can reflect on which emotion he is feeling, why he is feeling this way, and how we would handle this emotion or situation we are in.