WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
STORY AND PICTURES BY MAURICE SENDAK
The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind
and another
his mother called him "WILD THING!"
and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU 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
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 place where the wild things are
they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth
till Max said "BE STILL!"
and tamed them with the magic trick
and made him king of all wild things.
"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 someone loved him best of all.
But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go --
we'll eat you up - we love you so!"
And Max said, "No!"
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.
