Over its 60 years, “Where the Wild Things Are” has been translated into several dozen languages. The inadequacy of the world’s “Where the Wild Things Are” translations is one of my pet peeves. Sendak’s book is marvelous across so many dimensions, and I feel the losses keenly — more keenly than is perhaps reasonable. But I believe my job as a translator is to preserve all the dimensions of a book, not just one of them. And some of the most complex books I’ve reconstructed have been children’s picture books.

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