Let The Wild Grumpus Start: Maurice Sendak’s Decades-Long Grudge

“For 20 years or longer, author-illustrator Maurice Sendak has claimed that child psychologist Bruno Bettelheim mercilessly attacked his 1963 book Where the Wild Things Are when it was first published, causing him and the book great damage. … But like Max’s travels in Where the Wild Things Are, Sendak’s version is almost completely imaginary.”