Donde viven los monstruos (Where the Wild Things Are) » (Spanish Language Edition)

Sometimes dark, sometimes gleefully silly, but always inventive, intelligent, and colorful, Maurice Sendak s imaginatively illustrated children s books never forget their audience. Although his classic Where the Wild Things Are was criticized upon its initial publication for being too frightening, children responded with enthusiasm to both its wonderfully zany artwork as well as to its honesty. Forty years later, they still do.

Un clásico moderno ganador de la medalla Caldecott en 1964, este maravilloso libro exquista y raramente escrito e ilustrado por el talentoso Maurice Sendak, cuenta la historia de cómo Max se portó tan mal que su mamá lo dejó sin cena y lo mandó a su cuarto. A Max el asunto lo tiene sin cuidado, porque desde su habitación él puede navegar hasta donde viven los monstruos, transformarse en su rey, hacer que lo sirvan y, ya cansado, ir a dormir habiendo reconocido que, bueno, él tiene también su lado un poco salvaje.

Children's Literature

Sendak presents an image of children not as sentimentalized little dears but as people coping with complex emotions such as anger, fear, frustration, wonder, and awareness of their own vulnerability. Max feels anger at his mother, acts out his aggression in a fantasy land as he becomes "king" of his wild and ungovernable forces, and returns hungry, sleepy, and peaceful to the real world, where his porridge is still hot. This is a well-earned and reassuring happy ending for all children wrestling with human nature's darker emotions. It is also available in Spanish. 1988 (orig.