“Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so.”
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Variant: Oh, please don't go—we'll eat you up—we love you so!
Source: Parting words of the Wild Things to Max in Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
Quotes from bookWhere the Wild Things Are
Where the Wild Things Are is a 1963 children's picture book by American writer and illustrator Maurice Sendak, originally published by Harper & Row. The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1973 ; a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze. The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States.Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It was voted the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time.
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Variant: I'll eat you up I love you so.
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
“There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
“And the walls became the world all around.”
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963); of this passage Bill Moyers stated in "NOW with Bill Moyers", PBS (12 March 2004) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html: <br class="br">Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. <br class="br">Context: And when he came to the place where the wild things are, they roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws till Max said, "Be still" and tamed them with the magic trick of staring into all their yellow eyes without blinking once. And they were frightened and called him the most wild thing of all and made him king of all wild things.
Maurice Sendak book Where the Wild Things Are
Variant: "And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"
Source: Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
