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Remembering Jean de Brunhoff on his birthday 🎂
"With Bemelmans’s Madeline & Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, the Babar books have become part of the common language of childhood, the library of the early mind."
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ABC de Babar, 1934

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2021-12-10

The Nutcracker & The Mouse King, a Christmas fairytale by ETA Hoffman, German fantasy writer of Gothic Horror, is a dark, disturbing tale in the tradition of folk tales told long ago. Its evil villain is the sinister, mutant 7 headed MouseKing.
🎨MauriceSendak

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2021-12-02

One of Maurice Sendak's artistic idols was William Blake. Not only did Sendak illustrate an edition of Songs of Innocence, but the art in his own My Brother's Book was deeply shaped in style by Blake's.

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2021-11-28

Where the Wild Things Are
Maurice Sendak✨

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2021-11-15

E se a poesia construída em cima disso é monstruosa, nada melhor para expressar isso que os monstros de Maurice Sendak. Tão grotescos, mas ao mesmo tempo tão próximos de humanos.

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2021-10-29

prompt: Trying to make friends on the subway by Maurice Bernard Sendak

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2021-10-27

time!

Caramel Starlight
Brikhamira, the red dragon (Sendakro)
Drousch (Sendakro)
Kergler

Except for Caramel, they all have their elaborate stories that I've been writing for years. 🥰

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2021-10-26

✨Wishing everyone sweet dreams and a magical night✨

🎨Maurice Sendak

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2021-10-14

I totally forgot I made this!

A quick sketch of a female minotaur.

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2021-10-14

Author & illustrator James Marshall, best known for creating the George & Martha series, died in 1992. Maurice Sendak called him the "last of a long line of masters."

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2021-10-14

So easy to be mesmerised by Maurice Sendak's 'Where the Wild Things Are', but for pure whimsy, lyricism and beauty as only Sendak could create here's Maria Popova's thoughts about 'Kenny's Window' (1956) https://t.co/9ecO8KLoc9

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2021-10-13

Maurice Sendak's illustrations for How Little Lori Visited Times Square by Amos Vogel from 1963.

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2021-10-08

Here's on with insights into Maurice Sendak's Wild Things, and children handling big emotions: https://t.co/sSQJ2V9XJ5

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2021-09-27

Maurice Sendak illustrations for 1973 edition of the Brothers Grimm

The Goblins
Bearskin
The Golden Bird
The Twelve Huntsmen

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2021-09-19

From an artist who needs no introduction, a signed print created for PICTURES BY MAURICE SENDAK in 1971 is in this year’s auction. Go wild, and bid! The virtual Awards are 9/23. Sign up at https://t.co/OfMJmwUshm ©1971 Maurice Sendak Foundation

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2021-09-17

The beauty of Maurice Sendak's illustrations from Outside Over There (1981).

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2021-09-05

Maurice Sendak's Oz: The Hundredth Anniversary Celebration https://t.co/kEAdKdieyG

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2021-08-29

It's time for !

I'm Yasemin, art instructor and illustrator from Turkey. I love storytelling and working in diffent visual styles.
I've been creating and building my own fantasy world, Sendakro.

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2021-08-24