Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are1963 / Ebook / 40 pages / USA
****
Not being American, this wasn't part of my compulsory childhood reading, but I understand the lasting appeal. I probably get even more out of it as a lit graduate parent than I would have back then, though it would've been fun to be scared.
2004 / Ebook / 96 pages / UK
***
Another BFI writer taking the redundant novelisation route, it's at least interspersed with the making of and relevant autobiographical details, though the books he sources from are presumably better for that.
**
Naturally, this is going to be a focal area at the expense of other development (as soon as she stops viewing stationery as confectionery), but this primer was largely useless. You'd get as much from skimming the chapter headings as you would reading on and having their concepts and activities patronisingly explained to you.
2010 / Ebook / 153 pages / USA
**
A narcissistic autobiography of how the author came to appreciate and write about the album, nagging its creators with inane questions in the process.
2011 / Ebook / 176 pages / USA
***
Prosaic defence of a former novelty band starting to take themselves seriously, distinguishing the edgy and existential from the inexcusably daft.
