By Maurice Sendak
This book was fairly disappointing. I guess Sendak is an illustrator first and foremost. The illustrations are top-notch.
The story starts out talking about how Bumble's parents are dead so he's never had a birthday party. The rest of the story is told in awkward rhyme about a crazy party he secretly holds at his aunts house. The ending is good because she's crazy mad and has a fit, but can't stay mad because she loves him so, and they make up.
Most of it is just an excuse to draw frightening pictures of the party with no accompanying text. They're great pictures. But my daughter found them totally disturbing. I had to hide the book and send it back to the library.
It's definitely a story geared at younger kids, but the intro and the illustrations are confusing, at best, for young or sensitive children.
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