Where the Wild Things Are

[greenie_breizh]

Does anyone own Where the Wild Things Are? In English? Pleeeease?

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[themegs.livejournal.com]

Yes. At least I think it lives with me. Do you need it transcribed?

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

YES I LOVE YOU. I've been trying to cheat Amazon's "inside the book" features but I've only got part of the book, namely :

The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind
And another his mother called him "Wild thing!" and Max said "I'll..."

And grew until the ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around
And grew
And another
And an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max and he sailed off through night and day

Of staring into 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
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!”
And rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws



And I'm particularly interested in the end of the book, when Max leaves the island and goes back home. Would you mind transcribing? Only if it's not too much of a bother.

[themegs.livejournal.com]

Sure. :) I'll be home in about two hours and I can do it then.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much. It's terribly frustrating because I own the book, but in French and I need the English quotes, so it's no good!

*smooch*

[themegs.livejournal.com]

WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
Maurice Sendak


The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind
and another
his mother called him "WILD THING!"
and Max said "I'LL EAT YOU UP!"
so he was sent to bed without eating anything.

That very night in Max's room a forest grew
and grew -
and grew until his ceiling hung with vines
and the walls became the world around
and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max
and he sailed off through night and day
and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are.

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.

"And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!"

*wild rumpus pictures*

"Now stop!" Max said and sent the wild things off to bed
without their supper. And Max the king of all wild things was lonely
and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

Then all around from far away across the world
he smelled good things to eat
so he gave up being king of where the wild things are.

But the wild things cried, "Oh please don't go -
we'll eat you up - we love you so!"
And Max said, "No!"

The wild things roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth
and rolled their terrible eyes and showed their terrible claws
but Max stepped into his private boat and waved good-bye

and sailed back over a year
and in and out of weeks
and through a day

and into the night of his very own room
where he found his supper waiting for him

and it was still hot.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

Seriously, I can't thank you enough - it's perfect!

[themegs.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I'd forgotten how much I love it. It reads like poetry when you write it out like this. Of course I never noticed that when I was little.

[greenie-breizh.livejournal.com]

I was thinking the exact same thing! And I really love that book. It's funny because I don't remember loooving it as a kid (you know like reading it over and over and over again), but I was trying to write something earlier and wanted a kid's book and it automatically came to mind. Max and his wolf suit are really cool. *g*

[littlegothsin.livejournal.com]

(okay, je n'ai pas du tout pensé aux Loups de Kromer en lisant ça, non non non)