Not to mention his work as a set and costume designer. His production of The Magic Flute for Houston Grand Opera (and that was subsequently remounted by many other companies) was quite lovely, as was the production of The Nutcracker that he did for (I think) Pacific Northwest Ballet
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I loved Maurice Sendak books as a little girl, and passed on that love to my niece and nephew. His books were fun, exciting and beautiful to look at. Sendak was a great artist and (I think) an even better storyteller, who never talked down to kids.
Carole King's music set to Sendak's work was a genius collaboration. Anyone else remember the Really Rosie television special from the seventies? Pierre, Alligators All Around, Chicken Soup With Rice, One Was Johnny...still have them memorized!
Very sad news. Try to find that remarkable NUTCRACKER -- there's a good film of the production with his designs.
RIP. He'll live forever, of course.
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
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Very sad news! He was a wonderful author and illustrator. 'Where the Wild Things Are' and 'Little Bear' were some of my favorite books when I was a child.
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I have no idea if this is true, but I saw it posted and thought it wonderful:
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. 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. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” ? Maurice Sendak
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers." Thomas Pynchon, GRAVITY'S RAINBOW
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." Philip K. Dick
My blog: http://www.roscoewrites.blogspot.com/
I like the fact that he was known to be cantankerous!
He seemed to have a good reason for it, too. He said that he didn't like book signing as he got older because he thought his appearance would frighten children (the same way he was frightened by adults when he was a boy). As he said a while back, he based the monsters in WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE on how he perceived his aunts and uncles when he was growing up.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
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Posted: 5/8/12 at 08:42am