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Author Eggers, Dave.

Title The wild things / a novel by Dave Eggers
Published San Francisco : McSweeney's Books, [2009]
©2009

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 W'BOOL  810.6 E2956 A6/Wi  AVAILABLE
Description 288 pages ; 21 cm
Summary During a fight at home, young Max flees and runs away into the woods. He finds a boat there, jumps in, and ends up on the open sea, destination unknown. He lands on the island of the Wild Things, and soon he becomes their king. But things get complicated when Max realizes that the Wild Things want as much from him as he wants from them. Based loosely on the storybook by Maurice Sendak and the screenplay co-written with Spike Jonze
Notes "Adapted from the illustrated book 'Where the wild things are' by Maurice Sendak, and based on the screenplay 'Where the wild things are' co-written by D.E. and Spike Jonze."
Subject Runaway children -- Fiction.
Voyages and travels -- Fiction
Islands -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fantasy fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Movie novels.
Author Sendak, Maurice. Where the wild things are.
Jonze, Spike. Wild things.
LC no. 2010292917
ISBN 9781934781616 hardback
1934781614 hardback
9781934781623 fur cover
1934781622 fur cover