Comments on: Classic Picture Books Every Child Should Read #4: Maurice Sendak’s ‘Where the Wild Things Are’ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-4-maurice-sendak%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98where-the-wild-things-are%e2%80%99/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Mon, 20 May 2013 13:35:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-4-maurice-sendak%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98where-the-wild-things-are%e2%80%99/#comment-4238 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:01:18 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-4-maurice-sendak%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98where-the-wild-things-are%e2%80%99/#comment-4238 More people than you think may be reading those Golden Books (which I loved, too). Some have come back in new editions. For me part of the appeal of the Golden Books was that they were just the right size and weight for small children to clutch, not too big or heavy.

So many children’s books today are much larger than needed, a trend driven partly by library story hours, which need the big format. Some of these large books, even when they’re great, are too big for a lot of two- and three-year-olds to lug around easily. I wonder how that will affect children’s perceptions of them over time …

One of my favorable Golden Books was about telling time and had a clock with movable hands. Were there any that you especially liked?
Jan

]]> By: knightofswords http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-4-maurice-sendak%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98where-the-wild-things-are%e2%80%99/#comment-4237 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 15:24:14 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2007/08/31/classic-picture-books-every-child-should-read-4-maurice-sendak%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98where-the-wild-things-are%e2%80%99/#comment-4237 It’s somewhat reassuring that, while almost nobody is still reading all of the Little Golden Books, that some of the books around when I was younger are still hot today.

Malcolm

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