Thread: RIP, Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are.

Truly one of my favorite books as a child and then for my children as well. We have owned a few copies as they became well worn and needed to be replaced.

Sadz.

Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83and lived in Ridgefield, Conn.

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Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten, Mr. Sendak’s books were essential ingredients of childhood for the generation born after 1960 or thereabouts, and in turn for their children. He was known in particular for more than a dozen picture books he wrote and illustrated himself, most famously “Where the Wild Things Are,” which was simultaneously genre-breaking and career-making when it was published by Harper & Row in 1963.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/bo...ies-at-83.html

*I hope this was the right place to put this.

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Very sad, indeed.

R.I.P. Maurice Sendak,

He brought such joy to so many for so long of a time. A life very well lived.

RIP, Mr. Sendak.

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I always thought it was the interesting how the Wild Thing carrying Max has human feet.

Well, that's a shame. He was certainly an interesting and different author to be sure.