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Reviews and Recommendations
We've comprehensively compiled reviews of Where the Wild Things Are from the world's leading experts.
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Richard Branson Founder/Virgin GroupToday is World Book Day, a wonderful opportunity to address this #ChallengeRichard sent in by Mike Gonzalez of New Jersey: Make a list of your top 65 books to read in a lifetime. (Source)
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentDuring a trip to a public library in Washington’s Anacostia neighborhood in 2015, Obama shared some of his childhood favorites with a group of young students. He also read (and acted out) Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak to kids at the White House in 2014. (Source)
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Martha Stewart In this photo, Jimmy Fallon and I enjoy slurping Eggs of Newt together for Season-5 of “The Martha Stewart Show." I am dressed as "Queen of the Wild Things" inspired by the beloved Maurice Sendak children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." https://t.co/1ZBqXEW7dC (Source)
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Luna Lovegood @SteelPreservat1 That is a great book and character (Source)
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Alina Varlanuta I don’t have [a favourite book]. But I do have favourite characters: [....] Max tamed by Maurice Sendak. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Where the Wild Things Are is ranked in the following categories:
- #2 in 1-Year-Old
- #3 in 1st Grade
- #1 in 2-Year-Old
- #3 in 2nd Grade
- #35 in 3rd Grade
- #1 in 4-Year-Old
- #1 in 5-Year-Old
- #3 in 6-Year-Old
- #4 in 7-Year-Old
- #11 in 8-Year-Old
- #2 in Amazon Free
- #31 in Animals
- #2 in Award-Winning
- #7 in Baby
- #55 in Bad Boy
- #3 in Beginner Reader
- #19 in Behavior
- #23 in Bibliography
- #20 in Boy
- #36 in Catalog
- #7 in Cheese
- #14 in Childhood
- #5 in Children's Boat
- #5 in Children's Classics
- #37 in Children's Fantasy
- #1 in Children’s
- #32 in Controversial
- #29 in Courage
- #39 in Creative
- #44 in Creative Writing
- #3 in Dreams
- #10 in Easy
- #5 in Elementary
- #5 in Emotions
- #81 in End Of The World
- #9 in Feelings
- #54 in Gift
- #52 in Girl
- #51 in Graduate School
- #51 in Growing Up
- #2 in Illustrated
- #1 in Illustration
- #11 in Kinder
- #69 in Life Lessons
- #9 in Making Friends
- #22 in Manners
- #12 in Modern Fantasy
- #1 in Monsters
- #15 in Morals
- #13 in Nostalgia
- #61 in Old
- #1 in Pre-K
- #2 in Preschool
- #1 in Puppetry
- #13 in Purple
- #52 in Rated
- #22 in Read Aloud
- #53 in Sales
- #61 in Self-Awareness
- #64 in Storytelling
- #4 in Toddler
- #5 in Victoria
- #39 in Young Reader
- #25 in Youth