Where the Wild Things Are Written and Illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Where the Wild Things Are

Written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak

Published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are has become a staple of children literature. The book won the Caldecott Medal in 1964.
From Wikipedia: “Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Education Association named the book one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."^[14] It was one of the "Top 100 Picture Books" of all time in a 2012 poll by School Library Journal.^[15]”

Target Ages-Preschool, Kindergarten, 1st grade

Interactive components and springboards for lessons: Having the child act out the motions of the “rumpus”; illustrating the meaning of the word through motion.

As an art lesson, Sendak’s illustrations are a wonderful example of “hatching” and “cross-hatching”, a type of pencil shading performed by creating thin horizontal and vertical lines. Older students can practice the technique of “hatching” with their pencils on paper.

The background in this scene is a good example of Sendak's use of cross-hatching.