![]() The unforgettable characters and their strange stories, the unusual, lively, otherworldly + enchanting illustrations - this was a children’s book for the ages. Do you remember the first time you ever heard someone read Mother Goose or Where The Sidewalk Ends out loud? Doesn’t it almost seem as if they’ve just always been around?įor a lot of kids growing up in the last twenty years, Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, was the unconscious set upon which childhood was staged. ![]() He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.”Ĭhildren’s books are among the first memories that set the background for childhood, and there are those that stick with us forever. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. ![]() I answer all my children’s letters - sometimes very hastily - but this one I lingered over. “Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. ![]()
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