PrintOctober 22, 2009
Don't worry, we'll tell you where they are
A 400 word children's book, Where The Wild Things Are, has been wrought into a full-length movie during the Obama Administration, and it's hard to imagine a more fitting moment for the première.Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, Where The Wild Things Are is a more haiku than narrative. The book explains far less than it suggests, than it encourages one to imagine. What was it that set off Max's shenanigans at home? The author doesn't say, only to note that Max was "making mischief of one kind and another." And so the child reading it or having the book read to him fills it all in-and with little effort. He knows, knows damned good and well what sets parents off and has him exiled to his room. The Things Wild Max encounters on the island roar at him and gnash their terrible teeth. Aside from threatening to eat him up when he decides to leave, they don't otherwise speak a word to Max. Again, the kid having the story...(Read Full Article)
