Where The Wild Things Are -

Maurice Sendak

HarperCollins Publishers

1988

48 páginas

1h 36m

ISBN-10: 0060254920

Where the Wild Things Are is one of those truly rare books that can be enjoyed equally by a child and a grown-up. If you disagree, then it's been too long since you've attended a wild rumpus. Max dons his wolf suit in pursuit of some mischief and gets sent to bed without supper. Fortuitously, a forest grows in his room, allowing his wild rampage to continue unimpaired. Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.

The wild things--with their mismatched parts and giant eyes--manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.

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4 (Muito bom)

Desejo imenso de voltar a ser criança, fechar os olhos e esperar meu pai terminar de ler o livro pra mim. Tenho certeza de que, durante dias, sonharia com uma terra imaginária na qual eu chegaria num pequeno barco e reinaria sobre todas as criaturas.