Title: Where The Wild Things Are
Author/Illustrator: Maurice Sendak
Publisher: Harper and Row 1963
Genre: Fantasy
Pages: 40

Rating System: Early Elementary 5 (recommended)
This book is a pre-K-1 grade reading level. This book is a classic for all ages and helps with building imagination. The pictures in the book make it easy for kids to use their imagination and the text makes this book seem real to some kids. Any book that involves students using their imagination is a spectacular book.

Summary:
There is a little boy named Max. He is looking for a little fun, so he dresses up like a wolf. Unfortunately, his mother is tired of this  and sends him to bed without any supper. But unexpectedly a forest grows in his bedroom and Max is taken away to a land of Wild Things. Thankfully, the Wild Things are nice Things and do not eat Max; but instead they make him their king. Will Max return to his mother and finally eat his dinner?

Educational Purpose:
This book is a classic and so many activities can be used with it. In my classroom, I would have my students look at the pictures but come up with their own version of the book. This will show me how creative my students are. When the students get done with writing their own version, I will have them do a share out and they will share their versions of the story with myself and their classmates.