Monday, January 05, 2009

Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are was probably my favorite book when I was small. I took it out from the library over ad over until my parents finally bought me my own copy. While I have heard that someone or another is actually working on making it into a movie, I stumbled recently across a short "claymation" (think Gumby or Davy and Goliath) version which someone had done for a university film class project. I'm impressed.



Of course, there's also the original 1973 cartoon version, which is just as wonderful: