Where the Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak
One of my absolute favorite books of all time is Where the Wild Things Are. It is one of the most creative and relatable children’s books. The pictures are stunning and can tell the story by themselves. The story is about a mischievous little boy named Max. Max or “Wild Thing,” gets in trouble one night with his mother and she sends him to his room. Once she sends him there, his imagination starts to grow. Be begins the adventure in his bedroom by turning it into a huge forest next to an ocean. He climbs in a boat and travels for “years” until he reaches land, where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and they deem him the most wild of them all. Next the wild things and Max have a “wild rumpus.” They danced and played until Max sent them to bed. Soon he realized he was lonely and wanted to be “where someone loved him best of all.” So Max decided it was time to sail away from the wild things but the wild things did not want him to go. Still Max climbed back into his boat and sailed away, for another “year” or so. And soon enough he arrived back home in his very own room. I would definitely read this book to my class. All children can relate to having a wild imagination and dreaming. Once aspect of the book I would make sure to point out to my class would be the fact that as Max’s imagination grows bigger and bigger, so do the pictures. Likewise, once he starts getting tired of being “king of the wild things” and realizes he wants to go home, his imagination weakens and so does the size of the pictures. I think I would incorporate technology in the classroom using this book by having the children use MovieMaker on the computer to simulate what would have happened next if Max would have stayed with the wild things instead of going home. This would for sure get their creative minds rolling!
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