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Where the Wild Things Are

By: Maurice Sendak
Narrated by: Peter Schickele
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Publisher's summary

Max is the hero of this beloved children's classic in which he makes mischief, sails away, tames the wild things, and returns home for supper.
Click here to see other Weston Woods stories.
©1963 Maurice Sendak (P)1987 Weston Woods Studios

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Really Great !!

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

It was short, and had excellent character voices and sound effects.

Who was your favorite character and why?

the beast of course!

What does Peter Schickele bring to the story that you wouldn’t experience if you just read the book?

He's one of the best male narrators for children's books I've run across.

Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?

Sure. I could handle all 6 minutes!!!

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as a kid Mom would read this to me and my brother

great listen ... i love how it adds a picture of the book as well ... if you have kids ... u really might enjoy sharing it with them too ... what fun!!

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my son's favorite book !

great narration! can clearly understand the words , my 8 month olds attention was even caught by this which is rare because she doesn't like to sit for a little while

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My childhood

This is a great book for your kids!! My mom used to read this to me as a kid and I was obsessed. I went and got this recently because I remembered it and it’s just as amazing as when I was a kid! I highly recommend getting it for the kiddos

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Love the classic story

Love the classic story and although it is done well it is not my favorite choice of voice for the story, too modern. I also have some trouble using the app with story synchronization on my android devices. The pictures are too small on my table. There are a lot of bugs on my phone such as having to restart the app because the pictures stops when it goes to sleep or the review request pops up. I am hoping an update will fix this sometime soon! It is super annoying.

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Great book for the kids

I had always loved this growing up so nice to have it in Audiobook format.

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My favorite story.

Max and the Wild Things are my favorite escape from daily life. The pictures are great. The narrator is awesome! The background music is in the background and when there are no words to be spoken the music gets louder. Perfect!!!

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Favorite book of all time.

Brings me back to childhood every time. I could do with less music and let the story just be read. I still lived it anyway.

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As wonderful as the book!

We listen to this story over and over again. I'm as enthralled as I was as a child.

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daughter loved it

this really brought back a lot of memories from my childhood and it felt amazing to be able to share them with my daughter. This book, even without visuals, really just paint a wonderful picture

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