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Where The Wild Things Are By Maurice Sendak
The book, Where the Wild Things Are, was written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak.
His illustrations won the Caldecott Medal for most distinguished American picture book. The story of the book is a little boy that is being very horrible and destructive to the house and its material so the mom sent him up to his room without dinner.The moral of this book is to be respectful to your family because they provide for you.
There are many reasons that kids will be very mean and disruptive. One of them is they might want some attention because they might not have friends around them. Another is that they want something that they cannot get what they want. Others may think otherwise.In the book
Where The Wild Things Are Max (the main character) has

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