Even Sendaks Make Mistakes: When Your Hero’s Book Just Doesn’t Work for You

Can you keep a secret? An awful, terrible secret that could get me officially disbarred from all future children’s literature events from now until the end of time? This is just between the two of us, right? No one else is listening in and you won’t tell a soul. Okay. Here goes.

I don’t think everything Maurice Sendak did was brilliant.

There! I said it! It’s out in the open now. No shoving it back into Pandora’s box or anything. Phew! You know, it feels pretty good to say out loud after all...