The Wild Things
Book by Dave Eggers
The Wild Things is a 2009 full-length novel written by Dave Eggers and published by McSweeney's. The book is based on the screenplay of Where the Wild Things Are which Eggers co-wrote. The film is, in turn, based on Maurice Sendak's children's book Where the Wild Things Are.
Development
According to the Acknowledgements of the novel, Eggers, who was asked by Spike Jonze to write the screenplay, was also asked by Sendak to write the novelization.[1] He said his version is different, as Sendak's Max was based on Sendak, Jonze's was based on Jonze, and while writing the book, Eggers incorporated parts of his own boyhood into the character.
- ^ Leyshon, Cressida (2009-08-14). "Dave Eggers on "Max at Sea"". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2023-10-11.
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Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are (1963)
- Where the Wild Things Are (1980 opera)
- Where the Wild Things Are (2009 film)
- The Wild Things (2009 novel)
- Where the Wild Things Are (2009 video game)
- "Wake Up" (2005/2009)
- Young Wild Things Tour (2007)
- Where the Wild Things Are: Motion Picture Soundtrack (2009)
- "All Is Love" (2009 song)
- "Breezeblocks" (2012 song)
- "Wild Things" (2015 song)
- "Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life"
- Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak
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