Maurice Sendak Memorial

Yesterday I was honored and humbled to attend the Maurice Sendak Memorial at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. First of all, I loved that it was at the Met. As one speaker noted, there was something lovely about the big Ms everywhere, for us they were for Maurice the artist as much as for the museum. For one of many epiphanies I had listening to the wonderful speakers, music, and seeing the art was that Maurice Sendak was not only a seminal person in the world of books for children, but was one...