# Where the wild things are.. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 4, 2003, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377 "2003-11-04T17:20:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/21 "2003-11-05T14:08:23Z")
I used to read this book to my daughter when she was 2 or 3…It was also one of her favorites. As a matter of fact, I took it out of the library and she somehow knew I had to take it back, so she hid the book…Then, I ended up buying a brand new copy for the library and later found their copy.l I always thought it was comparable to “Sesame Street” which is full of non-threatening looking monsters, so that children will not have a fear of them. I mean, come on, the monsters in the book look like big dorks. Maurice Sendak said he modeled them after his relatives. I think Sendak is a great artist…he did the art for the “Little Bear” series…and the book won a Caldecott for art. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2003, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/22 "2003-11-05T16:28:58Z")
If I were you I’d sneak the book in there and read it gleefully. There’s nothing traumatic about it whatsoever. You may be interested in the political, soccer-mom, and/or religious reasons why books and words get banned discussed in the great book The Language Police by Diane Ravitch. BTW, they are going to make Where The Wild Things Are into a movie ([http://www.aint-it-cool.com](http://www.aint-it-cool.com)). ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/23 "2003-11-10T09:07:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by lieu \* > \*\*This actually doesn’t surprise me that much since we’re talking kids of daycare age. True, it’s an awesome read for when they’re a tad older but the pictures do depict some pretty scary monsters. I think it might have kinda gotton to me as well when I was a young’un. \*\* But it’s important to **get** scared once in a while, so you can learn to **get over** being scared. If you shield your kids from every image that might possibly be even the least bit disturbing, they will be **very** poorly equipped to face tangible sources of fear when they’re older. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/24 "2003-11-10T13:43:47Z")
Absolutely loved this book as a kid and this is just beyond understanding to me. By the way, as an all grown up MeanJoe I came across [these](http://www.goblinjp.com/goblin/figure/mcfarlane/mtwherewta.html) and had to buy the entire set. Rumpus! Rumpus! MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Tusculan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Tusculan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tusculan)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/25 "2003-11-10T14:09:11Z")
Am I the only one who was expecting a Buffy discussion here? Funny that a lot of children’s literature doesn’t cross boundaries; I’ve never heard of this book you speak of. ---
**Author:** ![rmbnxs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b9e5f3/32.png) [@rmbnxs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rmbnxs)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2003, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-the-wild-things-are/211377/26 "2003-11-10T22:04:06Z")
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