Now on VPRO Uur van de Wolf, a documentary about Maurice Sendak, writer and illustrator of the famous childrens book Where the wild things are. The book, written in 1963, is the story of a young boy named Max, who is sent to his room only to find his imagination has created a new world there, populated by wild geographies and monsters of all kinds. Initially, its graphic portrayal of the toothy wild things concerned parents, but before long it was a favorite among children everywhere, having been translated into fifteen languages and selling more than two million copies.