<P> According to Sendak , at first , the book was banned in libraries and received negative reviews . It took about two years for librarians and teachers to realize that children were flocking to the book , checking it out over and over again , and for critics to relax their views . Since then , it has received high critical acclaim . Francis Spufford suggests that the book is `` one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate and beautiful use of the psychoanalytic story of anger '' . Mary Pols of Time magazine wrote that `` ( w ) hat makes Sendak 's book so compelling is its grounding effect : Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side , but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper ' still hot , ' balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort . '' New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis noted that `` there are different ways to read the wild things , through a Freudian or colonialist prism , and probably as many ways to ruin this delicate story of a solitary child liberated by his imagination . '' In Selma G. Lanes 's book The Art of Maurice Sendak , Sendak discusses Where the Wild Things Are along with his other books In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There as a sort of trilogy centered on children 's growth , survival , change , and fury . He indicated that the three books are `` all variations on the same theme : how children master various feelings -- danger , boredom , fear , frustration , jealousy -- and manage to come to grips with the realities of their lives . '' </P>
<P> According to Sendak , at first , the book was banned in libraries and received negative reviews . It took about two years for librarians and teachers to realize that children were flocking to the book , checking it out over and over again , and for critics to relax their views . Since then , it has received high critical acclaim . Francis Spufford suggests that the book is `` one of the very few picture books to make an entirely deliberate and beautiful use of the psychoanalytic story of anger '' . Mary Pols of Time magazine wrote that `` ( w ) hat makes Sendak 's book so compelling is its grounding effect : Max has a tantrum and in a flight of fancy visits his wild side , but he is pulled back by a belief in parental love to a supper ' still hot , ' balancing the seesaw of fear and comfort . '' New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis noted that `` there are different ways to read the wild things , through a Freudian or colonialist prism , and probably as many ways to ruin this delicate story of a solitary child liberated by his imagination . '' In Selma G. Lanes 's book The Art of Maurice Sendak , Sendak discusses Where the Wild Things Are along with his other books In the Night Kitchen and Outside Over There as a sort of trilogy centered on children 's growth , survival , change , and fury . He indicated that the three books are `` all variations on the same theme : how children master various feelings -- danger , boredom , fear , frustration , jealousy -- and manage to come to grips with the realities of their lives . '' </P>
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who banned the book where the wild things are
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