The Wild Things are even wilder in the new movie version of Maurice Sendak's classic kids' book, but they still look pretty much the same. Now, back in 1986, Maurice Sendak told Terry Gross on ...

Exquisitely rendered but pervasively dark, Spike Jonze’s take on the classic kids’ book is a story about childhood that might be too disturbing for children. Where the Wild Things Are is in ...

A “wild rumpus ... as maybe scary for kids. Several of his books were controversial among adults.” Sendak’s editor Ursula Nordstrom described “Where the Wild Things Are” to The ...

The occasion of its 125th year in operation prompted the Brooklyn Public Library to tabulate its 125 most-borrowed books. More than a few of J.K. Rowling’s spellbinding novels in the Harry ...