Where the Wild Things Are the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children". It was voted the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of "School Library Journal" readers, not for the first time. This story of only 338 words focuses on a young boy named Max who, after dressing in his wolf costume, wreaks such havoc through his household that he is sent to bed without his supper. Max's bedroom undergoes a mysterious transformation into a jungle environment, and he winds up sailing to an island inhabited by malicious beasts known as the "Wild Things." After successfully intimidating the creatures, Max
The Boy Who Cried Fabulous review describes Fergsuon's "burnished" paintings as depicting a whimsical realm and a Roger reminiscent of Jimmy Olsen. The Boy Who Cried Fabulous The Boy Who Cried Fabulous (Tricycle Press, March 2004 ) is a children's book by Lesléa Newman and is illustrated by Peter Ferguson. Visually set in a mid-20th-century America, it is about an enthusiastic boy called Roger who keeps getting sidetracked when walking home or to school by all the "fabulous" things he sees. At first he is scolded by his parents, who forbid the word "fabulous", leading him to come up with other celebratory adjectives. But after