My Favorite Children's Book

I have always loved the book, "Where the Wild Things Are".  It's story about a child not getting their way and having to go to their room, as a consequence, using his imagination to go to far away places, and then realizing, he's hungry and he needs his mom so he can eat dinner.  At least that is what I think about as I read the story and I think it can be used as a great teaching resource when you read it to children.  The children in my room last year, were really interested in monsters, so I did a one week lesson plan on this story and they loved it!  After reading it everyday, they could pretty much read the story at the end of the week.  They all got the chance to stand up and act out different parts of the story, we made our own forest and they all got to use their imaginations and create their own monsters.  The book covers all of the four learning areas we look for at work (Social/Emotional, Physical, Language, and Cognitive) and the children loved to read it!!