Series
Where the Wild Things Are
Dave Eggers & Maurice Sendak · 1 novel · 1 short story · 1963–2009
The Wild Things (2009) is Dave Eggers's novel adaptation of his own screenplay for the Where the Wild Things Are film, itself based on Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 picture book about a boy named Max who sails to an island of monstrous creatures. Eggers expands Sendak's brief story into a full novel while keeping its outline intact.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources
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Reading order
The order the books came out.
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Where the Wild Things Are at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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By decade
- 1960s1
- 1970s0
- 1980s0
- 1990s0
- 2000s1
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Mood
Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
Edges of the map
- The Wild Thingsdarkest · most intense
- Where the Wild Things Arebrightest · calmest