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Where the wild things are / story and pictures by Maurice Sendak.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: [London] : Red Fox, 2015. Description: 1 volume (unpaged); chiefly colour illustrations; 23 x 26 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 12 cm)ISBN:
  • 9781782955030
  • 1782955038
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.54 23
Disc label: read by Tom Hollander ; with music by Oliver Knussen from the opera Where the wild things are.Summary: Read along with the story in this book and CD edition. One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.
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Picture Book with CD Picture Book with CD Waimate Picture books with cd Children &Young Adults Section PICWCD (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available a00705668

CD read by Tom Hollander with music by Oliver Knussen from the opera 'Where the wild things are'.

Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 1967.

This edition originally published: without CD. London: The Bodley Head, 1967.-Includes audio disc in pocket inside front cover.-Winner of the Caldecott Medal.

Disc label: read by Tom Hollander ; with music by Oliver Knussen from the opera Where the wild things are.

Read along with the story in this book and CD edition. One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all.

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