Published: September 2010

Seven-year-old Max likes to make noise, get dirty, ride his bike without a helmet and howl like a wolf. In any other era, he would be considered a boy. In 2007, he is considered wilful and deranged. His home life is problematic. His parents are divorced; his father, immature and romantic, lives in the city. His mother has taken up with a younger man who steals quarters from the change bowl in the hall. Driven by a series of pressures internal and external, Max leaves home, jumps in a boat and sails across the ocean to a strange island where giant beasts reign – the Wild Things from Maurice Sendak’s visionary classic.

The Wild Things is an all-ages adventure, full of wit and soul, which ties in to the Spike Jonze film Where The Wild Things Are, co-written by Dave Eggers.