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- Why did some critics and parents complain about Maurice Sendak's book Where the Wild Things Are when it was published in 1963?

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When Maurice Sendak's groundbreaking “Where the Wild Things Are,” was published in 1963, some critics and parents grumbled about what they called its dark and nightmarish undertones. But librarians rallied to what they saw as the picture book's emotional honesty and psychological realism.

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