Alongside the build up
of the plot, the pictures grow with intensity and then retract back. As Max’s world
culminates and eventually explodes into full tilt, the illustrations explode
with it from the intensity of the colors to the growing size of the imaginative
elements and most importantly, the framing. The pictures go from being very
restricted in small frames when he is in reality and as his dream of the “wild
things” grow, the frames burst off the page into full bleed and double spread.
As the plot works its way back to reality, the illustrations shrink back to
normal.
The pictures in this book are so detailed that it's possible for the book to be told without the text. There isn't even that much text in the book and it is also up to the reader to determine what the story is about and what Max is doing. The reader can look at the pictures to help decipher what is happening. At one point in the story, the reader does just look at the pictures to see what is happening without any text. This leaves it up to the reader to interpret the event in their own ways.
When Max returns home, it is as if time had never elapsed because his dinner was still warm. This element of discontinuous time makes this a post modern children’s book because the plot line is not linear; however it does follow the other elements of a story: introduction, problem, climax, and resolution.
The pictures in this book are so detailed that it's possible for the book to be told without the text. There isn't even that much text in the book and it is also up to the reader to determine what the story is about and what Max is doing. The reader can look at the pictures to help decipher what is happening. At one point in the story, the reader does just look at the pictures to see what is happening without any text. This leaves it up to the reader to interpret the event in their own ways.
When Max returns home, it is as if time had never elapsed because his dinner was still warm. This element of discontinuous time makes this a post modern children’s book because the plot line is not linear; however it does follow the other elements of a story: introduction, problem, climax, and resolution.