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25TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

WHERE
THE WILD THINGS
ARE

STORY AND PICTURES
BY MAURICE SENDAK

1964 Caldecott Medal Winner
for the Most Distinguished
Picture Book of the Year

HarperCollinsPublishers

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WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
was reprinted in 1988 from new
engravings made from the original art.

Maurice Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE was published in 1963 to great critical acclaim.  Brian O'Doherty of The New York Times said that Mr. Sendak's work, "disguised in fantasy, springs from his earliest self, from the vagrant child that lurks in the heart of all of us."

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is the first book of a trilogy that includes IN THE KITCHEN, published in 1970, "a profoundly engaging fantasy that ought to become a classic" (The New York Times), and OUTSIDE OVER THERE, published in 1981, which Newsweek called "extraordinary... triumphantly moving."

An author-artist of world renown, Mr. Sendak was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Illustrator Award in 1970 in recognition of the excellence of the entire body of his work.