A second look: Where the Wild Things Are.

The Horn Book Magazine | November 1, 2003| | Copyright

A second look at Where the Wild Things Are? Forty years after Maurice Sendak's early mid-career masterpiece first appeared on the fall 1963 Harper list, the suggestion still feels premature. Turning to the book now, the most striking thing about it remains its undatable, fresh-as-paint immediacy. However familiar the Sendak images have long since become, however far afield of their original purpose those images have occasionally migrated, Wild Things has yet to shed its initial fascination as an epic staring match in which the reader gets caught in the crossfire. In the ...

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