Schedule Time to Get Wild!

Pencil these very important activities in your calendar:  

October 9th:  Order Maurice Sendak's classic Where the Wild Things Are

October 14th:  Read Where the Wild Things Are with your “wild things" (or borrow your neighbors)

October 16th:  See the much anticipated Where the Wild Things Are movie!

This 1964 Caldecott Medal winner, promises to be a pure delight of a movie. Director Spike Jonze brings Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book to the big screen October 16, 2009.  Only a mixture of real actors, computer animation, and live puppeteering could bring this classic book to the big screen.

You will want to refresh your memory about WTWTA: Being sent to bed without supper as a result of wild and rowdy behavior isn’t always punishment…not when a young boy’s imagination takes flight to a land Where the Wild Things Are. The wild things, with their mismatched parts and giant eyes, manage somehow to be scary-looking without ever really being scary; at times they're downright hilarious. It is a truly rare book that can be enjoyed equally by a child or a grown-up. Maurice Sendak's color illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.  Sendak’s trademark sentence structure (or lack thereof) allows the reader to float with Max between the land of dreams and his imagination.  In the end…all is well…Max has his “consequence” lesson and readers are reaffirmed that there is no place like home.

Make time in your busy schedule…use this movie as your excuse to re-read and recall Where the Wild Things Are with all the little monsters in your life!