Where the Wild Things Are

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus b...

One night Max puts on his wolf suit and makes mischief of one kind and another, so his mother calls him 'Wild Thing' and sends him to bed without his supper. That night a forest begins to grow in Max's room and an ocean rushes by with a boat to take Max to the place where the wild things are. Max tames the wild things and crowns himself as their king, and then the wild rumpus begins. But when Max has sent the monsters to bed, and everything is quiet, he starts to feel lonely and realises it is time to sail home to the place where someone loves him best of all. When Maurice Sendak won the American Library Association's Caldecott Medal for WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE, he said: 'Max, the hero of my book, discharges his anger against his mother, and returns to the real world sleepy, hungry and at peace with himself...from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustration as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.'

桑达克于1964年以《野兽国》一书获凯迪克金奖；1970年获安徒生插画奖；为表彰他的整体创作，1983年美国图书馆协会颁发其罗兰英格斯怀尔德奖；1996年获美国国家荣誉艺术奖章；2003年荣获国际林格伦儿童文学奖。

莫里斯桑达克的作品包括《野兽国》《厨房之夜狂想曲》《在那遥远的地方》（这三部作品并称为桑达克最著名的图画书三部曲。）《肯尼的窗子》《罗丝房门上的记号》《坚果图书馆》（包括《鸡汤加米饭》《鳄鱼之家字母书》《约翰尼的数数书》以及《皮埃尔》），《乱七八糟，吧嗒》《亲爱的小莉》《我和杰克、盖伊都很沮丧》《糊涂的阿尔蒂》以及他最后的作品《致我的兄弟》等。

他为美国作家赫尔曼梅尔维尔和德国作家亨利希冯克莱斯特的作品画过插图。他把关于写书和插画的儿童文学随笔，收集在《凯迪克奖与公司：书籍图片注》（1988年）一书中。