1 I'm going to be a fiction Luddite here and say that some things are best left as books--one of those being a little kid running around in fox (?) pajamas being high up on that list.

2

I totally hated this book as a child. It creeped me out.

3 I loved the book. I am curious to see how they turn it into a movie.

4 A friend of ours named their kid 'Max' after the book.  I never got the feeling that the kid especially cares for the book.

On a side note, anyone who hasn't gone to see Coraline yet should be ashamed of themselves.  Especially if they have the chance to see it in 3D.

5 I'm fascinated to see this, particularly with all the controversy over the editing. 

Also what's the song?  *loses all cred*

6 I totally hated this book as a child. It creeped me out.

That statement right there may reveal more about your personality than anything else you have ever written.

_{Sorry, but facts is facts.}

7 I'm sorry, the forest growing in his room? Creepy as all fuck. Horned monsters with yellow eyes? Who then abduct the kid? Hell no. I don't like that it starts with punishment.

I just didn't like it.

8 Don't know if the film will be any good, but WtWTA is one of my all-time favorite kiddy books.  I got it for my nephew while he was still a fetus.

The monsters don't abduct Max.  He sails his boat "in and out of weeks and almost over a year" to get to their land.  They "roared their terrible roars and rolled their terrible eyes and gnashed their terrible teeth and showed their terrible claws, but Max tamed them all with the magic trick of staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the Most Wild Thing of All.  They made him the King of all Wild Things..."

That's from memory, so it's probably a bit off.  But it sure seems to me that the Wild Things are the ones who should be creeped out.

Anyway, I hated Goodnight, Moon, so YMMV, I guess.

9 WTWTA was my favorite book as a kid. I bought a copy for my kids, and I definitely want to see the movie (with my 8 yr. old, of course). I have to agree with you, Mrs. Peel, about Goodnight Moon. "Goodnight, nobody"? <shivers>

10 If you hated Goodnight Moon, you really ought to hunt down a copy of The Steamroller.  It will make you see Margaret Wise Brown in a whole new light.  A "WTF were you thinking, Margaret Wise Brown?!" sort of light.

11 I always thought Love You Forever was kidna creepy, too. 

12 but Max tamed them all with the magic trick of staring into their yellow eyes without blinking once and they were frightened and called him the Most Wild T