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Mr. MAURICE SENDAK (Author, "Where the Wild Things Are"): I didn't want them to be traditional monsters, like griffins and gorillas and such like. I wanted them to be very, very personal.

And sure enough, "Where the Wild Things Are" is filled with the aggressively childlike sense of wonder that only adults can feel. As Annie Dillard wrote, "Young children have no sense of wonder.

It’s a real movie.” "Where the Wild Things Are" stars newcomer Max Records as the 9-year-old son of a single mom who throws a raucous temper tantrum and is sent to bed without supper.

Parents may have fond memories of Maurice Sendak's classic children's book, "Where the Wild Things Are." But if their social-networking postings are any indication, some are not pleased with the ...

'I wanted the wild things to be frightening,' he said in the 1980 book The Art of Maurice Sendak. His appetite for controversy is clear from the tone and substance of the acceptance speech he gave ...

There's only one difference between Santa Rosa and Africa, as far as John Roberts is concerned. "They drive Land-Rovers. We drive Dodge power wagons." It's hard to argue with Roberts, 51 ...

The Wild Things themselves are all present and correct – even the James Gandolfini-voiced, oddly-named ‘Carol’ – and a significant portion of the game is concerned with helping them out.

Hell is other people, existentialist Jean Paul Sartre liked to say. The new movie Where the Wild Things Are, director Spike Jonze’s audacious adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s children’s story ...