Egger’s Novelization of the Movie of “Where the Wild Things Are”

Thank you to Leila Roy who drew my attention to this mention of a forthcoming adult novel by David Eggers “… based on Maurice Sendak´s classic Where the Wild Things Are … Ecco is publishing the book in fall 2008, to coincide with the Spike Jonze movie adaptation based on Sendak´s book, for which Eggers wrote the screenplay.”

Now this is fascinating. Certainly Eggers won’t be the first to build a new work of fiction off of a children’s book. There’s Gregory Maguire with Wicked based on The Wizard of Oz, after all. It is interesting though that this novel is based on a picture book that is being turned into a movie. Very, very interesting.