Where the Wild Things Are is number one on BBC Culture's poll of the greatest children's books. Imogen Carter explores its appeal. Accepting the coveted Caldecott medal in 1964, an annual award ...

In Maurice Sendak's 1963 children’s book, Max, a little boy in a wolf costume, is sent to bed without supper. So he sails on a boat to a faraway land where he tames the Wild Things, becomes ...

Munro—or “Saki,” the author of the book in question—is among those ... with whom Saki peopled so many a scene. The character of these lethal Narcissi is well netted in a phrase coined ...

"Where the Wild Things Are" was just one of the more than 100 books that Sendak wrote or illustrated ... awards that pointed out which storybook character each of them most resembled.

TELL US: What did Where the Wild Things Are mean to you? Do you remember reading the book as a child ... Romance Novelist Emily Henry Based Just 2 Characters on Real People — and You'll Never ...

He is certainly best-known for his 1963 picture book Where the Wild Things ... colored glasses — and neither do his characters, like Where the Wild Things Are's Max. In the NPR interview ...

Controversy is nothing new to “Wild Things.” Sendak’s original book caused a stir when it ... Bruce Handy proposed that the lead character Max’s tale is told as if from an adult ...

Anarchy reins as the Wild Things ... main character and fretted over his bad example. Children’s literature scholar John Morgenstern traces two conflicting strains in the books adults read ...

Max emerges as a much more nuanced and developed character in the ... “Where the Wild Things Are” is the first in a series of prominent children’s book adaptations that will hit theatres ...