Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012

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5 responses to “Maurice Sendak 1928 – 2012”

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   Jimbo

   May 8, 2012

   Sendak was brilliant but owed a rather large debt to Winsor McCay.
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      Charley Parker

      May 8, 2012

      Yes. Obviously for In the Night Kitchen in particular, though I doubt he would have been at all reluctant to acknowledge that.

      For the benefit of other readers, here is one of my posts about Winsor McCay.
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   Camilleon

   May 9, 2012

   From which book is the illustration with the little hooded figures? I feel like I read that several times as a kid, but I can’t remember its title!
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      Charley Parker

      May 9, 2012

      Camilleon, the hooded figures are from Outside Over There.
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   Daniel van Benthuysen

   May 9, 2012

   Sendak did a number of interviews over the years with Terri Gross on NPR. In one he confessed that he long ago stopped doing signings or readings at schools because children were frightened by him and many were disturbed by the idea that grown-ups wanted him to write in their books, something they were constantly told not to do themselves.

   He did however cherish a letter from a little boy who asked if it was expensive to travel to where the wild things are. The boy wrote, “If it’s not too expensive, my sister and I would like to spend the summer there.”