Where the Wild Things Are

by Maurice Sendak

 

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This isn't just a plain repurposing project.

I love this book, and I wanted to make a web page which would recreate what it's like to read this story with a child. Or one child in particular, my son, David. I've worked really hard to make sure he knows this book and loves it, because I think it's so much better and more important than a lot of books out there.

Whenever David and I read a book--any book--we have to spend the majority of our reading time writing the story between the lines. I talked with David a lot about this book, about what it's all about, and all the stuff in between. Then I added a few touches of my own, and tried to make it very like reading it with a child, who interrupts with hilarious little tales in between the story.

Please enjoy this and don't be too upset when my imagination didn't produce the same thing as yours. That's exactly why everyone should buy a copy of this and make up her own stories for it. There's a link on the picture of the book above to amazon.com where it's pretty cheap. Please do a buy a copy. We should support work as fabulous and interesting as Sendak's.

Here's how this page works:

Each page is one page of the story. You can click on the underlined text after you read each page to see the David/Kate part of the story and the accompanying picture, or you can click the "more, please" icon to just stick with the story.

And as always, I welcome all feedback, complaints, general banter. It makes this worthwhile when peole respond, so consider emailing me at kmjames@ilstu.edu.

Enjoy!