Where The Wild Things Are - Maurice Sendak

The night wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind

and

another

his mother called him “WILD THING!”

and Max said “I’LL EAT Y

OU UP!”

so he was sent to bed without eating anything.

That very night in Max’s room a forest grew

and grew

-

and grew until his ceiling hung with vines

and the walls became the world all around

and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max

and he sailed off through night and day

and in and out of weeks

and almost over a year

to where the wild things are.

And when he came to the p

lace where the wild things are

they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth

and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws

till Max said “BE STILL!”

and tamed with the magic trick

of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once

and they were frightened and called him the most wi

ld thing of all

and made him king of all wild things.

“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”

“Now stop!” Max said and sent the wild things off to bed without their supper.

And Max the king of all wild things was lonely and wanted to be where

so

meone loved him best of all.

Then all around from far away across the world

he smelled good things to eat

so he

gave up being king of where the wild things are.

But the wild things cried, “Oh please don’t go

-

we’ll eat you up

-

we love you so!”

And Max said, “No!”

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth

and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws

but Max stepped into his priv

ate boat and waved good

-

bye

and sailed back over a year

and in and out of weeks

and through a day

and into the night of his very own room

where he found his supper waiting for him

and it was still hot.