Children's author, Maurice Sendak, dead at age 83
Do you remember Where the Wild Things Are?
Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche.
Read it again as a teen and see if you still feel the magic, or finally understand the magic!
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