Name: The Wild Things
Rating: 3.384615384615385 (13 reviews)
ISBN: 9780241144558

Dave Eggers

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered willful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city

A Novel

The Wild Things

A book for all ages offers a novelization of the movie Where the Wild Things Are, based on the classic children's book of the same name by Maurice Sendak, in which a boy flees his home only to end up in the land of the Wild Things. Movie tie-in.

Nick Truden

What I learned you ask?

To howl when I need to feel better.

During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicatedwhen Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze.

Hans Gerwitz

Fabulous. Much better than the movie. Partially, this may be due to the small deviations the story takes from that of the screenplay. Mostly, though, this stands as a solid example of how books can tell a deeper story than film. Perhaps the movie could have revealed Max's psyche to us through first-person narration, but it's hard for me to imagine another medium allowing me to empathize with his struggles as I could here.

Daniel Cleveland

intriguing and a quick read, eggers did a great job of capturing that overwhelming feeling of being a kid

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers is the novelisation of Maurice Sendak's classic Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other age he would have just been considered a boy. These days he is considered wilful and deranged. After a row with his mother, Max runs away. He jumps into a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant and destructive beasts reign - the Wild Things. After almost being eaten, Max gains their trust, and he is made their king. But what will he do with the responsibility? 'A life-affirming delight' GQ 'Compelling, fantastical, engrossing' Shortlist 'Let the wild rumpus start!' Grazia

John Clements

Megan Parrott

Lindsy Rice

Kim 

Brigid prior 

Roger Amundsen

Paige Carter

Megan No

Maurice Sendak

Spike Jonze

A new take on Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," but with more depth, detail, and edginess that will have even adults "eating it up." In Japanese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.

Sam Spott

Grace McCarter

Facing trouble at home with his father gone and his mother and sister uninterested in him, Max runs away from home during an argument only to end up in the land of the Wild Things.

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