by Dave Eggers, Dion Graham
Skeptical, I was extremely skeptical. We already have a Where The Wild Things Are and I'm not sure it could possibly be improved upon. I did enjoy Spike Jonze's movie adaptation quite a lot, but this exists in book form. Why would you do a novelization when the picture book is so perfect. Little by ...
Sorry, Dave ... not one of your finer efforts. Please go back to fictionalized journalism like What is the What or Zeitoun, both of which are brilliant and among my favourite novels. I don't mind your autobiographical stuff (and this, I sense, is part of what this is) and I've not read the Sendak b...
My dad has this really uneven track record when it comes to presents. You always know he's going to get at least one book, and he writes just achingly beautiful inscriptions in even the ill-considered stuff, the stuff that makes you think, "Dad, seriously, do you have any idea with whom you're deali...
Plays out pretty much the same as the movie adaptation.
I like Dave Eggers, and I'm a fairly monstrous fan of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, so I had high hopes for this pairing. I was disappointed however, not so much in how Eggers' told the story - I thought he was true to Sendak's voice and purposes - but in where he took it, or more to t...
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