Directed by Spike Jonze from a 400-word children’s picture book first published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are may be the toughest adaptation since Tim Burton fashioned Mars Attacks! from a series ...

Very sad news this morning: Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83, The New York Times reports. The Times' Margalit Fox writes the cause of death was ...

During the second grade, the first book I checked out of the library at Golson Elementary School was “Where the Wild Things Are” by illustrator/writer Maurice Sendak. Not a bad way to start, eh?

Maurice Sendak's children's tale given an acute, smart CGI dress by Spike Jonze Sendak’s slim, resonant book, published in 1963, makes it clear that Max’s adventure is a dream by having a forest grow ...

Where the Wild Things Are honors the book in every imaginable way...and in ways no one could have imagined until Spike Jonze and his crew came long. Maurice Sendak's children's classic is a tale told ...