Where the Wild Things Are
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 Where the Wild Things Are facts

• The book has been adapted into other media several times, including an animated short in 1974 (with an updated version in 1988); a 1980 opera; and a live-action 2009 feature-film adaptation, directed by Spike Jonze
• The book had sold over 19 million copies worldwide as of 2009, with 10 million of those being in the United States
• Sendak won the annual Caldecott Medal from the children's librarians in 1964, recognizing Wild Things as the previous year's "most distinguished American picture book for children"
• It was voted the number one picture book in a 2012 survey of School Library Journal readers, not for the first time