Narrative and Genre vs Where the Wild Things Are: Which Should You Read?

Cover of Narrative and Genre Narrative and Genre Mary Chamberlain · 1997 220 pages · ≈ 4 h 04 m · Challenging

Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use shared conventions…

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Cover of Where the Wild Things Are Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak · 1963 ★★★★☆ 4.3 44 pages · ≈ 49 min · Challenging
“The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another his mother called him "WILD THING!”

This is an inspired children's book about a boy's passage through tempestuous aspects of life. Max, a naughty little boy, sent to bed without his supper, sails to the land of the wild things, where he becomes their…

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1 film adaptation

The verdict

How to choose

Scores by source

Narrative and GenreWhere the Wild Things Are
Goodreads — 4.3 (1086320)
Hardcover — 4.2 (716)
Apple Books — 4.5 (16)

Reception

Narrative and GenreWhere the Wild Things Are
Ratings — 1086320
Editions 10 125
Film adaptations — 1
Want to read — 327321
Reading it now — 2749
Written reviews — 15192
Wikipedia attention — 15393
Pages 220 44

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