This is the classic of all children's books. I've read it to my two kids so many times we all have it memorized. We're on our second copy because the pages were literally falling out of the first copy.Not only is it beautifully illustrated and written, I think we love this book so much because it captures the joys and fears of childhood so perfectly.Max is a creative, willful child who gets sent to his room without supper. Angry at his mother, he escapes to a fantastic world full of wild but controllable monsters where he becomes the King of All Wild Things. But after a while he longs to return to where "someone loved him best of all." He finds that, by leaving his supper for him, his mother still loves him.I don't know of any other book that better captures the feelings of being a child (or of being a parent watching your children grow up.)