I Absolutely Adore Maurice Sendak!

[kpete]

“There must be more to life than having everything.”
― Maurice Sendak

He has been an inspiration for my kindergarten art students for years!



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I bow my head to Mr. Sendak



and say thank you for the lines, shapes, values, spaces, textures, colors and compositions!!!

GREAT INTERVIEW OF THIS MARVELOUS GUY HERE:
Maurice Sendak on 'The Colbert Report'
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-viral-video-maurice-sendak-cobert-report-html,0,1269516.htmlstory
and another by Bill Moyers
http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/sendak.html

loved this guy, oh, did I say that already
and so did our president:
Maurice Sendak’s ‘Wild Things’ One of Obama’s Favorite Children’s Books

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/05/maurice-sendaks-wild-things-one-of-obamas-favorite-childrens-books/





and:
I was born in 1986, and Where the Wild Things Are was a favorite book of my three siblings and I growing up (along with The Hungry Caterpillar, Goodnight Moon, and Pat the Bunny.) In elementary school, we even did a short play version of the book, so it must have been familiar to a lot of my peers, too. If there really was a lull in the book’s popularity in the ’80s, I hope the recent film adaptation has caused a revival and that today’s kids aren’t deprived of a wonderful book. That is, if today’s kids read at all. RIP, Maurice Sendak.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/05/maurice_sendak_generation_gap_where_the_wild_things_are.php?ref=fpblg

[pansypoo53219]

1. great interviews on NPR's fresh air. links on the web site for the full interviews.

the colbert one was awesome. idiot indeed.

[murielm99]

2. There are other books by Sendak, or

illustrated by him that our family has loved. Chicken Soup with Rice is fun. So is In the Night Kitchen, which prudes everywhere hate, because of the anatomically correct naked little boy. We also love Jarrell's The Animal Family, which Sendak illustrated.

I don't know if all of these are in print any more, but they are worth looking for.

RIP, Mr. Sendak.