He made the monsters fun. Maurice Sendak, the child author and illustrator, has died at age 83. His books and style of illustration immediately evoked a whole world of creatures and characters, dark places that were part scary and part cozy. Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize winning creator of the graphic novel, Maus, comments on the life of Sendak.
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Nobody has mentioned Sendak being the illustrator for the Little Bear books, which are just the opposite of In the Night Kitchen and Where the Wild Things Are. The Little Bear books are very much the romanticized ideal of innocent childhood.
MAURICE SENDAK was a consummate pictorial artist and author whose imagination had no bounds so that young and old could equally enjoy the visions, good and monstrous, that he could so aptly create. am a Wagnerian romantischer heldentenor, the director of the Richard Wagner Music Drama Institute, and an opera composer of "Shakespeare" and "The Political Shakespeare." As a musician and author myself, I can fully understand the wholesome atmosphere accorded by a musical background sounding at the appropriate times.
I grew up listening to the Off-broadway version of "Really Rosie" and even now I can sing all the songs off the top of my head. Christmas' were and continue to be defined by The Nutcracker, the version that Maurice Sendak created the set for. To me and our family Maurice Sendak has been a defining person, a beautiful person, and one that I continue to share with friends.
I fell in love with 'Where the Wild Things Are' the first time I read it. When I had a son many years later, of course I had to name him Max. 'In the Night Kitchen' and 'Where the Wild Things Are' were favorite bed-time stories for my Max. Thank you Maurice Sendak!
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