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Maurice Sendak's illustrations for "I Want To Paint My Bathroom Blue" (Ruth Krauss, 1956) prefigured his famous spreads for "Where The Wild Things Are" (1964).

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2023-03-09

Maurice Sendak's design for a poster of Where the Wild Things Are and Higglety Pigglety Pop! Operas (1985)

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2022-08-28

V sweet looking retrospective of Maurice Sendak's work coming this fall to the Columbus Museum of Art: https://t.co/Y84ykaKWj3

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2022-08-25

Let the wild rumpus start! Celebrating Maurice Sendak on what would've been his 94th birthday. This anecdote about a young fan eating Sendak's drawing is one for the books.

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2022-06-12

Maurice Sendak's created posters on the joy of reading and they're glorious.

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2022-04-20

Maurice Sendak's The Nutcracker (1984). He did not care for the bland, smoothed out tale most people are familiar with through the ballet but was drawn to the weird, darker elements of Hoffmann's original.

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2021-12-12

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

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

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

Born in Brooklyn to immigrant parents, Maurice Sendak's stories were shaped by his Jewish heritage and the intergenerational trauma of the Holocaust. He believed that "the touch of reality in a child’s life is a child’s comfort" and aimed to honestly depict childhood fears.

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2021-05-24

Sendak's illustration reminds me of the elusiveness of the story creation, the poem's birth....'oh, yes- I got it! Wait, it felt better just ten seconds ago. Okay, how about?....darn, now what was I going to jot down?

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2021-05-14

He's a sad one. He could use some love. He was forced to make children abandon make-believe. As I mentioned to another fan of his, he reminds me of Sendak's magnificent Where the Wild Things Are.

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2021-05-04

Maurice Sendak's In the Night Kitchen was one of my favorites.. .. the idea of being folded into batter and baked felt weirdly and unresistably enticing for little nico😂

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2021-04-15

Maurice Sendak's sketches & set design for the Czech opera "The Cunning Little Vixen" by composer Leoš Janáček.

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2021-03-28

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Overhaul with Sendak's arm prosthetics.

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2021-01-19

Maurice Sendak's illustrations for E.T.A. Hoffmann's The Nutcracker. This edition was published in 1984.

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2020-12-21

Meet Anna Lazowski! Anna is the debut PB author of T. REXES CAN'T TIE THEIR SHOES (, which pubs June 29, 2021). Visit for on Sendak's work, writing at the kitchen counter, cultivating patience, and more! https://t.co/1d6EeLfkHs

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2020-10-26