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 ALL AROUND

AND AN OCEAN TUMBLED BY WITH
A PRIVATE BOAT FOR MAX AND HE
SAILED OFF THROUGHT 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 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!"

"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 SOMEONE LOVED HIM BEST OF ALL.

THEN ALL AROUND FROM FAR AWAY
ACROSS THE WORLD HE SMELLED GOOD THINGS
TO EAT SO HE GAVE 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

"Where the Wild Things Are" (Donde viven los monstruos) es un conte infantil publicat l'any 1963 escrit i il.lustrat per Maurice Sendak. Explica la història d'en Max, un nen juganer i rebel que després d'una discussió amb la seva mare es enviat a la seva habitació però fuig de casa. S'endinsa dins un bosc amb l'objectiu de descobrir el lloc d'on venen els monstres i construeix un món dins la seva imaginació on pot fer les malifetes que vulgui. Aquest any es prepara la adaptació al cine del llibre dirigit per Spike Jonze. Ara per ara, nomes hi ha el tràiler, i tot i que no sigui fan del cine fantàstic, pinta molt be.