In Honor of What Would Have Been Maurice Sendak’s 89th Birthday

 

Here are some tidbits I’ve collected on this blog over the years celebrating this artistic genius.

From Maurice Sendak’s Prescient Opinion on our President-Elect

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From We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (1993). Many thanks to Michael Patrick Hearn for bringing it to my attention.

From An Extraordinary 1966 Filmed Interview of Maurice Sendak in His Studio

The following is a brief, but amazing interview of the young Maurice Sendak just after he won the Caldecott for Where the Wild Thin...