5.08.2012

RIP Maurice Sendak, 1928-2012.

Damn. More Maurice here. And here: "I refuse to lie to children." My favorites:

illustration from "Outside Over There"

And one I read to my children over and over ("no fighting no biting" became a catchphrase):

from "No Fighting No Biting" by Else Homelund Minarik

P.S.  Had to add this tweet:


Love quote on talking about when he was a kid, "I thought Italians were happy Jews."

2 comments:

  1. RIP Maurice. Let the wild rumpus start!

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  2. I was talking with a children's editor friend about him yesterday. We tend to think of children's writers as happy-go-lucky innocents, but he was different. Cranky, a little aggressive, and fascinating, one might not have pegged him as a children's author.

    And we loved his work.

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