![]() ![]() The effort is an interesting and impressive venture No embellishment, no sugarcoating, just a stripped- down, but still whimsical tale of a child's curiosity and imagination. So, naturally, director Spike Jonze and writer Dave Eggers had to go out on a limb with the extra effort if they were to successfully make a movie based on it. The funny thing about the latter is that this book is only 9 sentences long! That's a short book, even by children's standards, despite the story being told more with pictures than words. These come through in such books as 1981's Outside Over There, 1970's In the Night Kitchen, and, in the case of this review, 1963's Where the Wild Things Are. He didn't pander or sugarcoat his stories simply because he didn't feel a need (as well as a rather unpleasant childhood that introduced him to mortality in a less gentle light than most kids, but that's another story). ![]() The stories he wrote are very much like Grimm's Fairy Tales: whimsical and fun, but still dark and threatening. Maurice Sendak, who recently passed away, was one of the most controversial yet still imaginative authors to ever have been published. ![]()
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