Everyone’s talking about Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book Where the Wild Things Are these days. Originally published in 1963, the story has been delighting parents as much as their kids ever since. The story is about Max, a boy who while wearing his beloved wolf costume, harasses the dog, makes trouble and generally gets into mischief until his exasperated mother sends him to bed without dinner. But it takes more than 4 walls to hold the wild rumpus bursting out of Max, and his adventure begins.

While fun and imaginative and wild, the book also subtly looks at feeling angry, and how to cope with that, and how we can be angry or frustrated at people while still loving them, and being loved in return, just the same.

With just six weeks left until the North American release of the major motion picture adaptation, Where the Wild Things Are is enjoying fresh buzz and a ramped-up interest in the book, which truly is one of the children’s books not to be missed.

The book is very short, and more picture-heavy than word-heavy, so all are curious how the film adaptation will work – clearly the story must be heavily fleshed out to fill a feature-length film. With the capable, creative and enthusiastic team of Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers at the writing/directing helm, people are excited to find out, that’s for sure. Coming soon, to a theare near you! And if you don’t already own the book, for goodness’ sake pick one up – it’s a must-have.

If you haven’t seen the trailer, check out this goodness:

In the meantime, while we anxiously await the movie, enjoy these GENIUS Where the Wild Things Are cupcakes created by flickr user claire_issa. How great. I wish it was my birthday and she was my friend. Aren’t they excellent?