This is why, without exception, the kids in Sendak’s books are in trouble, in danger, or both. In Where the Wild Things Are, Max throws a temper-tantrum, gets a time out, and literalizes it: He steps out of time and travels alone, for days, months, years, to a land of dangerous creatures. (That temporal stretching is characteristic of Sendak’s work; time and scale, like everything else, is seen from kids’ vastly more plastic perspective.) In Bumble-Ardy, we are confronted on the first page with a pig whose family frowns on fun, refuses to celebrate his birthday, and then, injury to insult, gets eaten. In Outside Over There, a child lapses in her babysitting duties for a moment, leaving her little sister to be stolen away by goblins, who look like pint-size grim reapers (or, more disturbingly, like child refugees, albeit apparently from Hades). In Pierre, the eponymous protagonist is eaten by lions.
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