Wild at heart

Are your kids as excited about the new Where the Wild Things Are movie as we are? Remind them where it all began with this short-run exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum. On view from Tuesday October 6 (ten days before the movie opens) through Sunday November 1, the exhibit features Maurice Sendak’s original drawings from and early drafts of the 1963 book, including a preliminary sketch that didn’t make it into the final version—Max on all fours atop the dinner table, slurping spaghetti. Given that Wild Things is said to be partially autobiographical, inspired by long family dinners in 1930s Brooklyn, we’d love the chance to have supper in the Sendak household.