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Maurice Sendak, author and
illustrator of one of my favorite children's books, Where
the Wild Things Are, died
Tuesday. He was 83.
There was a wonderful piece on him on NPR this week which included
excerpts from interviews with him over many years. He said he had a terrible
childhood and didn’t believe in making children think the world was a safe
beautiful place. And yet he created monsters that all of us could relate to,
monsters and weird beasts we could make peace with and co-exist with, just like
the children in his books. To quote the movie trailer:
Inside each of us is Fear.
Inside each of us is Adventure.
Inside each of us is a Wild Thing.
R.I.P. Maurice Sendak. You gave
so many generations of children permission to believe in their imaginations.
