A singular touchstone of my childhood.
Well, this is the issue. Not having grown up in an English-speaking country, I haven't read most famous children's books. We had some famous ones translated -- The Grimm's and Perrault's fairy tales, Hans Christian Anderson, etc., but not much beyond that. First time I tried to read the LotR books was when I was in my early thirties, and I found it slow-going and the prose too cluttered. Some things just need to be read when you're the right age for them, I think.
Well, you won't have a cluttered prose issue with WTWTA. It's a pretty cheap investment in a classic.
I so wanted a wolf suit like Max's when I was a kid.
You used to be able to buy them at the Where the Wild Things Are playland here in San Francisco.
I am verrrrry tempted to get myself one. Yes, I would wear it around the house as pjs.
I believe I actually cried the first time I read WtWTA to Owen.
"And Max, the King of all Wild Things, was lonely, and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all" will get me every. fricking. time. And let's not even get started on the last page of Are You My Mother?
You are not my mother! You are a snort.
I can't read
Are You My Mother?
to Em. It was one of the books my grandmother and I read all the time and I can't bring myself to do it. No kid needs to hear a book being read to them by a sobbing mess of a mother.
So Joe reads it to her.
In the near future, children can be read to by their robotic Hello Kitty dolls. Except then we'd have to worry about hackers taking control of the Hello Kitty dolls to tell kids to steal their mommies' credit cards and hold them up to Hello Kitty's eye cameras....
