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    Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It tells the story of a boy named Max who is sent to bed without dinner by his mother. In his imagination, Max sails to a land filled with monstrous creatures called the Wild Things. Max becomes their king and plays with them, only to later sail back home, where he is welcomed for supper. The book has been adapted into films and other media and has sold over 19 million copies worldwide.

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    Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It tells the story of a boy named Max who is sent to bed without dinner by his mother. In his imagination, Max sails to a land filled with monstrous creatures called the Wild Things. Max becomes their king and plays with them, only to later sail back home, where he is welcomed for supper. The book has been adapted into films and other media and has sold over 19 million copies worldwide.

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    Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. It tells the story of a boy named Max who is sent to bed without dinner by his mother. In his imagination, Max sails to a land filled with monstrous creatures called the Wild Things. Max becomes their king and plays with them, only to later sail back home, where he is welcomed for supper. The book has been adapted into films and other media and has sold over 19 million copies worldwide.

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    This article is about the 1963 children's book. For the film adaptation, see Where the Wild Things
    Are (film).

    Where the Wild Things Are

    First edition cover of Where the Wild Things Are

    Author Maurice Sendak

    Illustrator Maurice Sendak

    Cover artist Maurice Sendak

    Country United States

    Language English

    Genre Children's picture book

    Publisher Harper & Row

    Publication date April 9, 1963


    Media type Print (wide-format hardcover)

    Pages 40

    ISBN 0-06-025492-0 (25th anniversary ed., 1988)

    OCLC 225496

    LC Class PZ7.S47 Wh[1]

    Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and
    illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into
    other media several times, including an animated short in 1974 (with an updated version in 1988);
    a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. The book had
    sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United
    States.[2]
    Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild
    Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".[3] It was voted
    the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time

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