Director Spike Jonze and the
Where the Wild Things Are film team came up with a list of their top 10 rascals in literature.
David Barnett does not approve of several of the rascals to make the list:
Is Scout Finch from Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird really a rascal? I suppose she can hold her own in a fistfight, and there was that business with Boo Radley's porch,
but she seems to have too much of a sense of social justice to really merit a place. And Oliver Twist? Despite his asking for more, he always seemed a bit too simpering. Surely Dickens's Artful Dodger should have the place on the list instead of Oliver. Catcher in the Rye's Holden Caulfield is too old and world-weary, surely, and Harriet the Spy, from Louise Fitzhugh's 1964 novel and the later movie version, is more of a sneaky loner than a proper rascal.
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more about Barnett's take on the list.
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the list of the top 10 rascals in literature.
Augusten Burroughs hopes parents will read Where the Wild Things Are to their children.
--Marshal Zeringue
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