Where The Wild Things Are

Sendak, M. (1963).  Where the wild things are. NY: HarperCollins.

Max goes downstairs wearing a wolf suit and is making a lot of trouble for his mother.  His mother sends him to his room without any dinner.  This imaginative boy turns his room into a forest and takes a boat across the see to where the wild things are.  After a night of playing with the wild things, he goes back home, where his hot dinner is waiting for him.

Maurice Sendak makes the Wild Things and the forest cone alive in Where the Wild Things Are by using texture.  The hair on the Wild Things, the water in the ocean, the leaves on the trees all look real because of texture.  This helps create this wonderful story about an imaginative boy taking a trip to a magical place and returning back home before his dinner gets cold.

Lesson plans including video:

http://literature-in-the-curriculum.wikispaces.com/Where+the+Wild+Thing+Are