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By Elizabeth Kennedy, About.com Guide to Children's Books since 2000

Maurice Sendak's Max is Back!

Wednesday June 8, 2005
One of the reasons the picture book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak is a classic is that children identify so closely with the main character, an angry little boy named Max who is sent to bed without supper because he has been behaving like a "wild thing." Now Max, still in his wolf suit, is back in a new edition of Ruth Krauss' "Bears," published by HarperCollins. With just 27 words, much of the meaning of this story for young children comes from Maurice Sendak's illustrations of Max and the bears.

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