Michael Patrick Hearn on Maurice Sendak

It was at one of the wonderfulChildren’s Literature New England conferencesthat I sawGregory Maguire in conversation with Maurice Sendak, someone who had been so incredibly important to me growing up as a reader (my iconic Sendak childhood works are the Little Bear books), as an aspiring children’s book illustrator (I studied and studied his masterful use of crosshatching), and as a lifelong member of this world of children and their literature (I followed all his work and commentary and lear...