Comments on: Book Review: Where The Wild Things Are

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:05:12 +0000

Kender, you made my day, thanks for stopping by.

By: Kender

Kender — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:59:59 +0000

Josh, I am a first grade teacher and a grad student. I read this book every year to my students. I do a week long lesson on it, reading it every day. For grad work, we are required to select a genre and then pick 3 books within that genre suitable for elementary, middle school, and high school. My choices: Where the Wild Things Are, The Lion the Witch & the Wardrobe, and Twilight. The obvious genre is fantasy. This was totally unplanned or perhaps built into my subconscious, but the 3 books I chose have all been made into movies. Coincidence? Probably not…. the very best fantasies intrigue us and have us begging for more. I love Where the Wild Things Are, and I greatly enjoyed your book review.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:28:19 +0000

Mike, if you do some kettlebells, your back will be fine:) Seriously, I agree with you on all counts. My little boy just turned 20 months. I feel like every minute I don’t spend rolling around on the floor with him is wasted time.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 22:24:57 +0000

I am nearing 30 years old and do not plan on limiting books at all to my kid. He is only 9 months and already very ahaid of the game for his age. I have a very vivid imagination, something I take great pride in never loosing. In all honesty it is what keeps me sane. Books are the best thing to fuel the curiosity that we should all have.

I would love to come home one day, see my kid playing and ask, “whatcha doin”, and he would reply, “I am the king of the monsters, we are going on an adventure”. And even better then that, if he would ask me to join him on this adventure. That would be awsome^^

Because of books, and more then anything now, role playing games, wether they be video or live action. I am not beyond getting down on all fours, or chasing my kid around because I am a dragon, or should I end up being his horse >.<, I hope my back can hold that kind of torture. But I do hope that my kid will be brought up questioning the boundries of his mind. Where does our ability to understand ourselves or for that matter, the universe end? Can it end? Can we surpass the limits of the human brain?

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 13:48:12 +0000

Lois, I wish I had been in one of your classrooms. Sounds like you got it right.

By: Lois Levy

Lois Levy — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 05:09:27 +0000

thank you, Josh. I was teaching kindergarten in 1967 when I discovered the Wild Things. I blew all the “things” up to life size, laminated them and had them all over each of my classrooms for the next three years. No child was ever frightened by the book or the monsters.
Sendak speaks directly to children. And he speaks truth.

By: Josh Hanagarne

Josh Hanagarne — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:11:40 +0000

Evelyn, it wasn’t quite “banned.” Someone always wants to remove it from library shelves because it “encourages inappropriate behavior.” Books don’t get banned in America, but that doesn’t mean people don’t try. It is more common in communist states. For instance, in China Alice in Wonderland was banned because animals talk in the book. “Representing animals as having human traits” was no acceptable, so the book was banned.

By: Evelynn

Evelynn — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:58:07 +0000

I just don’t get why it was banned in the first place, that’s all I’m trying to figure out. banning books, to me, is just like communism. who’s to say who can read what?

By: sue

sue — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:25:05 +0000

I love he Book Read it every night to my son it was his favorit ..