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"Sendak's illustrated children's story is one of the few things I can confidently call "perfect." It's the tale of a boy's tantrum and his fed-up mother's rejection of him — bed without supper. And it's the tale of the dream that transports him over the sea, in his wolf pajamas, to a land of monsters who crown him king and help him act out all his rowdy, infantile impulses — until the rage goes out of his system and he longs to return home. Sendak's huge creatures are on the border between stuffed-animal cuddlesome and mythically grotesque: perfect mascots for Sendak, whose fantasies are always double-edged. They can liberate you or consume you."

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