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[[File:Where_The_Wild_Things_Are_(book)_cover.jpg|thumb|''Where The Wild Things Are''.]]'''Where the Wild Things Are''' is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator | [[File:Where_The_Wild_Things_Are_(book)_cover.jpg|thumb|''Where The Wild Things Are''.]]'''''Where the Wild Things Are''''' is a 1963 [[Children's literature (nonfiction)|children's picture book]] by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. | ||
The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States. | The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States. | ||
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Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". | Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". | ||
== In the News == | |||
<gallery> | |||
File:Wild Thing closeup.png|Closeup of a Wild Thing. | |||
File:Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association logo.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|[[Egg Tooth (neighborhood)|Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association]] adopts decorated egg (circa 599 BC - 300 BC) as new logo. | |||
File:Johnson-Wax Frank-Lloyd-Wright.jpg|link=Egg Tooth (monster)|Fugitive monster [[Egg Tooth (monster)|Egg Tooth]], hidden among Frank Lloyd Wright's "lily pad" pillars in the Johnson Wax Headquarters. | |||
</gallery> | |||
== Nonfiction cross-reference == | == Nonfiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Children's literature (nonfiction)]] | |||
* [[Maurice Sendak (nonfiction)]] | * [[Maurice Sendak (nonfiction)]] | ||
== Fiction cross-reference == | == Fiction cross-reference == | ||
* [[Egg Tooth (monster)]] | * ''[[Bless the Beasts and Wild Things]]'' - 1970 novel by [[Fulgent Hotrod Wardens|Fulgent "Hotrod" Wardens]] that tells the story of several emotionally disturbed monsters at summer camp who unite to stop young actor Jack Nicholson from performing a self-lobotomy. | ||
* [[Egg Tooth (monster)]] - a monster who famously escaped from ''Where The Wild Things Are''. | |||
* [[Where The Wild Things Were]] - a [[Documentary film (nonfiction)|documentary film]] about the lives of the [[Monster (nonfiction)|monsters]] in the celebrated children's book ''Where The Wild Things Are''. | |||
External links: | |||
* [http://wiki.karljones.com/index.php?title=Where_the_Wild_Things_Are Where The Wild Things Are] @ wiki.karljones.com | * [http://wiki.karljones.com/index.php?title=Where_the_Wild_Things_Are Where The Wild Things Are] @ wiki.karljones.com | ||
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are Where the Wild Things Are] @ Wikipedia | * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Where_the_Wild_Things_Are Where the Wild Things Are] @ Wikipedia | ||
[[Category:Books]] | [[Category:Nonfiction (nonfiction)]] | ||
[[Category:Books (nonfiction)]] | |||
Latest revision as of 07:06, 17 April 2019
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row.
The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States.
Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children".
In the News
Closeup of a Wild Thing.
Egg Tooth Neighborhood Association adopts decorated egg (circa 599 BC - 300 BC) as new logo.
Fugitive monster Egg Tooth, hidden among Frank Lloyd Wright's "lily pad" pillars in the Johnson Wax Headquarters.
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Nonfiction cross-reference
Fiction cross-reference
- Bless the Beasts and Wild Things - 1970 novel by Fulgent "Hotrod" Wardens that tells the story of several emotionally disturbed monsters at summer camp who unite to stop young actor Jack Nicholson from performing a self-lobotomy.
- Egg Tooth (monster) - a monster who famously escaped from Where The Wild Things Are.
- Where The Wild Things Were - a documentary film about the lives of the monsters in the celebrated children's book Where The Wild Things Are.
External links:
- Where The Wild Things Are @ wiki.karljones.com
- Where the Wild Things Are @ Wikipedia