| Product Summary | | Format: Hardcover | | ISBN: 9780061656866 | | Publisher: HARFE | | Publish Date: 9/1/2009 | | Buy.com Sku: 211226687 | | Item#: | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 67108 | | Dimensions (in Inches) 11.75H x 8.75L x 0.5T |
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| | | Based on the Warner Bros. live-action adaptation of Maurice Sendak''s classic book, opening in theaters on October 16, this storybook allows young fans to relive the adventures of Max and the wild things. Features photos from the film on every page. Full color.
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This terrific retelling of Maurice Sendak's classic tale WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is illustrated using dazzling photographs from Spike Jonze's 2009 live-action film. Kids can follow along with Max and all of their favorite beasts as they battle for control over their magical kingdom, where imagination is the ruling force.
| Author Bio| Dave Eggers | | Dave Eggers, along with Rick Moody and David Foster Wallace, is considered one of the most influential and dazzling postmodern writers of the early 21st century. He is known for his brainy sense of humor, his pop-culture references, and his extensive use of appendices, lists, charts, and other miscellanea. Eggers exploded into the literary world with the publication of A HEARTBREAKING WORK OF STAGGERING GENIUS (2000), a semi-fictionalized memoir about the death of his parents and his founding of a magazine in San Francisco while taking care of his younger brother. Hailed as a postmodern CATCHER IN THE RYE, it became an instant bestseller with young, savvy readers, and was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Since his smash debut Eggers has built an impressive literary empire out of his wry, hipper-than-thou, metafictional aesthetic. His literary journal, McSweeney's, has grown from a humble black-and-white publication to a polymorphic extravaganza, featuring peerless design and the fiction of the most irreverent and inventive writers of the generation. McSweeney's has also become a prolific independent publisher, publishing the book-review magazine THE BELIEVER as well as work by such idiosyncratic writers and literary darlings as Lydia Davis, Lawrence Weschler, Nick Hornby, and George Saunders. Eggers also edits and helped found THE BEST AMERICAN NONREQUIRED READING series, a testament to his stature in the world of unorthodox and experimental writing. Since AHWOSG (as he refers to his first novel), Eggers has published two novels and a collection of short stories, though none of them have achieved the same meteoric success. He is married to the writer Vendela Vida, and lives in San Francisco. |
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