Maurice Sendak dies; author and illustrator wrote about children’s survival

[TlalocW]

7. Never liked, "Where the Wild Things Are" as a child

I was convinced... CONVINCED! that the monsters knew that the kid wasn't a monster and were just biding their time and playing with their food (especially the way the one monster with hair all around his head) stared at him. Sure he got away at the end of the book, but the next time he went, he was monster chow. And as a kid, when you re-read the book, sometimes you expect it to change, especially if you have such fears as monsters coming to get you.

I also remember a reaction like this to a story we read in grade school about witches around Halloween. Some kids discovered there were some witches in a nearby cave planning to do bad, but they couldn't come out because it was raining. So one of the kids dressed as a witch, and they all walked under umbrellas to the cave to let the kid enter dry as a bone. When she did, the other witches were amazed and wanted to know how she survived the rain, and she said she walked between the raindrops, and it was an easy task to do for witches, and she would teach them. Of course, the rain melted the witches, but I was concerned that 1) there was no way you could fool witches into believing you're one of them and 2) the cavalier taking of witch life...

TlalocW