Where The Wild Things Are
When Good Children Tales Go Bad
by June K. Williams

Going to a film like Where The Wild Things Are was a bit of a stretch for me as I neither read the book when I was a child nor read it aloud to any of the children I babysat when I was a teenager. Not that I wasn’t aware of it or hadn’t read it as an adult and certainly found myself touched by the gentle delicate story of a young lonely boy who is freed by his boundless imagination. Maurice Sendak’s illustrations of this as well as his numerous other works for children have permeated popular culture. How, I wondered would the film makers handle the touching, wistful nature of this 48 page picture book and turn it into a 90 minute movie? Read More→