Where the Wild Things Are 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 Little Boy Lost The Little Boy Lost "The Little Boy Lost" is a simple lyric poem written by William Blake. This poem is part of a larger work entitled "Songs of Innocence" which was published in the year 1789. "The Little Boy Lost" is a prelude to "The Little Boy Found". Father! father! where are you going?O do not walk so fast.Speak, father, speak to your little boy,Or else I shall be lost." The night was dark, no father was there;The child was wet with dew;The mire was deep, & the child did weep,And away the vapour flew. " The Little Boy Lost"