Joanne Hwang 教學宅急便

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE - by Maurice Sendak

＊    Maurice Sendak：Born in 1928 in Brooklyn , New York . American writer and illustrator of children’s literature. 12-Decided to become an illustrator after viewing Walt Disney’s film FANTASIA. Grotesque characters but attract the forbidden aspects of children’s fantasy – subject of controversy. Work：more than 90 books. Fantasy & imagination.

＊    1963

＊    A 48-page children’s picture book

＊    Adapted into

  -  Animated short in 1973 (updated version in 1988) 

 ＊Story line  
       -  Max. one evening plays around his home making mischief in a wolf costume 
      -  As punishment. Mum sends him to bed without supper
       -   In his room. A wild world grows out of his imagination
       -   Max sails to the land of the Wild Things and in made “the king of all wild things.”
      -   After finding himself lonely and homesick, he returns home.