![]() ![]() On the island, Max is still a king, and he still leads the Things in a wild rumpus. ![]() ![]() When confronted with changes in his actual life, a place filled with Wild Things seems satisfactory by comparison. We learn that Max has a sister who has grown too old for the games they once played, and we are introduced to his mother’s younger boyfriend, whom Max is not prepared to accept. But before we meet one of the monsters, we spend time in Max’s home. Max still visits an island inhabited by Wild Things. There is still a wild boy named Max, of course, and he still bites his mother. He uses the original for inspiration, but leaps off to create a world of its own. Eggers, however, has produced a work of 300 pages that naturally includes many, many more sentences. (Weren’t we all exposed to Maurice Sendak’s Caldecott winner in childhood?) And the world Sendak evokes is so gripping that it is easy to forget that the original book was built around nine sentences. Keep reading for our take and a chance to win a furry copy of the book. Dave Eggers has written a novel that is deeply imaginative, slightly strange, occasionally dark, and ultimately touching. The Wild Things is easily the best book ever adapted from a movie that was adapted from a picture book - but it also succeeds in its own right. ![]()
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