Tag: maurice sendak

  • Where the Wild things Are – Brilliant design as well as story

    Where the Wild things Are – Brilliant design as well as story

    Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…

  • Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book

    Why Where the Wild things Are is my Favourite Children’s Book

    Where the Wild Things Are, by Maurice Sendak, was a hugely influential book for me. When I first encountered it in the college library in the early 1980s I was bowled over. In this book, I could see how all my various talents might come together. That was the day I realised there was a…

  • Maurice Sendak’s Google

    My favourite author of all time, Maurice Sendak, would have been 85 today. Google are celebrating his life with an animation featuring Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. Go see – only today.