Maybe I’m just sentimental about reading this with my kiddos, but I just think that some childrens books are best left undisturbed. The magic of this book, or any book, is that so much is left to the imagination.
Max was being crazy so he was sent to his room. That’s it. You get to imagine what kind of boy he really is, and fill in the blanks on your own. Now we’ll get all of the blanks filled in for us by a director. Kinda takes the mystery and magic out of the book. Sad.
Next we’ll get a full-length feature of Goodnight Moon. “Action! Drama! and a bowl full of mush.”