Banned Book Movie Series: “Where the Wild Things Are”

Name: Banned Book Movie Series: “Where the Wild Things Are”
Start: 2024-10-19T14:00:00-04:00
Location: 230 Grand Blvd, Tarpon Springs, FL

Schedule

Sat Oct 19 2024 at 02:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

230 Grand Blvd, Tarpon Springs, FL | Tarpon Springs, FL

Our next Banned Book Movie is “Where the Wild Things Are” Doors open at 2pm, movie starts at 3pm.
Free snacks, free admission, movie open to all! There is a LittleFreeLibrary library out front!
Maurice Sendak’s picture book faced many opponents immediately after its publication in 1963. Readers believed Where the Wild Things Are was psychologically damaging and traumatizing to young children due to Max’s inability to control his emotions and his punishment of being sent to bed without dinner. Psychologists called it “too dark”, and the book was banned largely in the south. It has also been challenged several times for its images of witchcraft and supernatural elements.