This three sentence summary provides the key details and events from the children's book "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak: The story follows the imaginative adventures of a mischievous boy named Max, who dresses up as a wolf and is sent to bed without dinner as punishment. That night, Max's room transforms into a magical jungle-filled land, where he sails to an island inhabited by large, ferocious beasts called the "Wild Things." Max becomes king of the Wild Things by taming them, but eventually grows homesick and returns to his room to find his dinner waiting for him.