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Genre/Form: | Children's picture books picture books Fantasy fiction Pictorial works Picture books Children's stories Livres d'images Pictorial works Juvenile fiction Ouvrages illustrés Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse Ouvrages illustrés |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience, Audio book, etc. |
Document Type: | Book, Sound Recording |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Maurice Sendak; Tom Hollander; Oliver Knussen |
ISBN: | 9781782955030 1782955038 |
OCLC Number: | 1016699695 |
Notes: | CD read by Tom Hollander with music by Oliver Knussen from the opera 'Where the wild things are'. Originally published: London: The Bodley Head, 1967. This edition originally published: without CD. London: The Bodley Head, 1967.-Includes audio disc in pocket inside front cover.-Winner of the Caldecott Medal. |
Performer(s): | Disc label: read by Tom Hollander ; with music by Oliver Knussen from the opera Where the wild things are. |
Description: | 1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly colour illustrations ; 23 x 26 cm + 1 audio disc (digital ; 12 cm) |
Responsibility: | story and pictures by Maurice Sendak. |
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Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm and the design are all wonderful. * S Magazine, Sunday Express * The greatest picture book ever written -- Chris Riddell, Children's Laureate * Guardian * The key to Sendak's success and to the continuing hipness of his book, is that it's hero is not a good child . . . the book is, in fact, extraordinarily childcentric, a book written for and about terrible infants, the kind of terrible infants that most children really are and that all adults remain for much of the time -- David Baddiel * The Times * This is my never-fail picture book. The text is very short, but utterly perfect, the illustrations are tremendous -- Jacqueline Wilson Gripping, ingenious and uplifting . . . a shrewd, fierce, healing book -- Boyd Tonkin * Independent * Read more...

