Story Time with Abbie - “Where the Wild Things Are” by Maurice Sendak

Hi kids, I'm Abby and of course I have a

story

for you today. I want to share with you a book that my librarian read to me when I was a kid in school and it's called Where the Wild Things Are and it's written and illustrated by Maurice Sendik. and Maurice Suntec actually won an award called a cow to cop medal for having the best images in this book, so I hope you enjoy all the imagination in Where the Wild Things Are. Max was his wolf costume and got into pranks of one kind and another. Why, his mother called him Wild Thing and Max said I'll eat you, so they sent him to bed without eating anything and that same night in Max's room a forest grew and grew until vines hung from the ceiling and the walls became in the world. around and an ocean passed with a private boat for Max and he sailed through the night and the day and in and out for weeks and almost over a year to use Wild Things Are and when he reached the place

where

the Wild Things Are roared their terrible They roared and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws.

Max told them to stay still and he tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all of his yellow eyes without blinking once and they got scared and called. he was the

wild

est thing of them all and they made him the King of the

wild

things

and now he was crying Max let the wild rampage begin Ed he's the king now stop sending the wild

things

to bed without their dinner Max the king of all the wild animals Lonely things and he wanted to be

where

someone loved him most of all, then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he stopped being the king of Where the Wild Things Are, but the monsters cried Oh, please, no.

Don't go, we will eat you, we love you and Max said no, the monsters roared with their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws, but Max entered his private boat and said goodbye with his hand and he sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and for a day and into the night of his own room where he found his dinner waiting for him and it was still warm and that's the end of Where the Wild Things Are, I hope . You enjoyed it when I was a kid, every

time

I heard it I thought: I wonder if Max really went to the place where the monsters live or do you think it was all just a really wonderful dream?

We don't know, but it was a great

story

anyway, bye kids.