A Staged Adaptation of a 'Where the Wild Things Are' Turned My Child and Me Into Happy Monsters
People of a certain age and background take for granted that Where the Wild Things Are is a beloved, indelible relic of their childhood. But if it was beloved by me when I was a child, I’ve no memory of it.
As long as I can recall, my Sendak associations focus on the Nutshell Library. That is, the quartet of miniature stories that include, most critically, Pierre, about an insolent little boy whose indifference toward his parents gets him eaten by a hungry lion who pays a call.