Picture Book Review: What Do You Do Dear?

What Do You Do Dear by Sesyle Joslin, illustrated by Maurice Sendak, Young readers Press, New York, 1969.
This is a storybook I loved as a child.  It presents a totally ridiculous situation, and then asks for the polite response.  Such as thanking your guest before leaving when a dragon comes to the party or cover your mouth when you cough because you are smoking a peace pipe.

Picture Book Review: Where the Wild Things Are

Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, Scholastic, New York, 1963.
Here is a Caldecott Medal winner for best picture book of the year.  This book has some truly marvelous pictures.  In the middle of the book are six pages, three pictures back to back with no words of the wild thing rumpus.  The pictures are imaginative, fantastical and very well done.