Lost book by Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, discovered

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http://bangordailynews.com/2017/07/11/living/lost-book-by-maurice-sendak-author-of-where-the-wild-things-are-discovered/?ref=latest

Maurice Sendak tantalized the imaginations of decades of curious children with dozens of books, including his classic illustrated book “Where the Wild Things Are,” first published in 1963.

When the author and illustrator died in 2012, though, most thought the world had seen the last of his inimitable storytelling. Sendak fans can rejoice, then, because it turns out he had one more book, just waiting to be discovered.

According to Publishers Weekly, which broke the story, Lynn Caponera, president of the Maurice Sendak Foundation, was cleaning out the late author’s files in Connecticut last year and trying to “to see what could be discarded” when she found a typewritten manuscript with the title “Presto and Zesto in Limboland.”

Stunned by her discovery, Caponera scanned the manuscript and emailed it to Sendak’s longtime editor and publisher Michael di Capua. Could this be real?

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