Where the Wild Things Are

First Line:

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him "WILD THING!" and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!" so he was sent to bed without eating anything.

Description:

Max is sent to bed without supper and imagines sailing away to the land of Wild Things,where he is made king.

Selected Reviews:

"[A] most imaginative and unusual read-aloud picture book, with illustrations that are marvelously detailed....The text has a lovely lyric quality, and the psychological implications are sound but are not obtrusive in the story--rather, they give it body."

--Zena Sutherland, Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books