This article celebrates one of my favorite authors, Maurice Sendak, who left our world yesterday…. I read Max’s tale to my sons (each one both Max and “wild thing”) countless times. The book, with the edges of its spine chewed by a long-gone cocker spaniel, still sits on my bookcase, waiting for my next “wild thing” to snuggle up and listen to Max’s story. Don’t we all want “to be where someone love[s] [us] best of all”?
So true.
Thanks for this news. I didn’t know. I read Maurice Sendak books to my boys (20 years ago) and now I read them when tutoring small children. I always get a reaction, particularly from “In the Night Kitchen”. His book “Outside over there” has paintings inspired by Philipp Otto Runge of huge children and babies playing near a picket fence and sunflowers. I once studied the painting that inspired Sendak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Philipp_Otto_Runge_003.jpg
By coincidence, this weekI borrowed another book about a big baby which resembles Sendak’s and Runge’s babies: “Baby Boomsticks” by Margaret Wild & David Legge. I was not surprised to see sunflowers on the first page.
I haven’t read the ones you mention. I need to look at them.