Where the Wild Things Are (film) Berger ("The Chronicles of Narnia") turned down offers to work on the film four times. Although the book inspired him as a child to work in special effects, he felt filming it was a "horrible idea." Jim Henson's Creature Shop provided the animatronic suits for the Wild Things. Filming began in April 2006 at Docklands Studios Melbourne in Melbourne, Australia. Jonze kept in close consultation with Sendak throughout the process, and the author approved creature designs created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. To make the set a more comfortable environment for Max Records, Jonze encouraged the crew members to bring
The Boy Who Cried Fabulous The Boy Who Cried Fabulous The Boy Who Cried Fabulous (Tricycle Press, March 2004 ) is a children's book by Lesléa Newman and is illustrated by Peter Ferguson. Visually set in a mid-20th-century America, it is about an enthusiastic boy called Roger who keeps getting sidetracked when walking home or to school by all the "fabulous" things he sees. At first he is scolded by his parents, who forbid the word "fabulous", leading him to come up with other celebratory adjectives. But after a time they come to appreciate their son's unique way of seeing the world. The "Publishers Weekly"