http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFDcaTI0c…

And here’s Maurice Sendak on how the film “enhances” and “enriches” the book. Sendak also predicts “controversy.” He recalls that it took about two years for Where the Wild Things Are to catch on. Bruno Bettelheim famously wrote a negative review of the book, criticizing Sendak for the “double abandonment” at the beginning. Max is not only sent to his room; he is also deprived of supper.

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