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Where the Wild Things Are by Muarice Sendak

When I was young and rotund, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are was certainly one of my favorite books, actually it still is. It ranks right up there with Shel Silverstein’s The Giving Tree and Margaret Wise Brown’s Goodnight Moon. I don’t think many people out there could argue that there are better children’s books (mom, Susie and others you’re not allowed to interject).

As many of you probably know by now they are or have turned Where the Wild Things Are into a major motion picture and it actually looks like it could be pretty amazing. Yesterday, I came across an interview from the “The New Yorker” where Dave Eggers talks about his involvement with the movie and a new book which he has coming out titled The Wild Things. And yes, the novel is related and does have something to do with the children’s book of a similar name.

As I was surprised to learn when reading the opening of the interview, Dave Eggers actually worked with the incredibly awesome Spike Jonze writing the screenplay for Where the Wild Things Are. Pretty crazy huh? I thought so. Apparently after they wrote the screenplay Dave was contacted my Maurice Sendak and was asked to make a novelization of the movie. As it turns out the movie is more Spike and the novel is more Dave despite both of them having worked together on the screenplay. Makes some sense though, after all Spike is a director/producer and Dave is a writer (not to categorize or anything).

With that, I’ll leave you with the link to the interview and let you read it for yourself. As for me, I’m excited for the movie and now equally excited for Eggers new book.

The Wild Things by Dave Eggers