Where the Wild Things Are (opera) dream is over, and Max starts to eat the food his Mama had left for him during his dream time. Where the Wild Things Are (opera) Where the Wild Things Are, Op. 20, is a 'fantasy' opera in one act by Oliver Knussen to a libretto by Maurice Sendak, based on Sendak's own children's book of the same title. Knussen composed the music from 1979 to 1983, on commission from the Opèra National, Brussels. In form and subject matter the work relates to Maurice Ravel's "L'enfant et les sortilèges", as well as Stravinsky's "The Nightingale". Knussen also included a number
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"