Another Artist I Love and a Nice Surprise
I'm a month late for his birthday but today I celebrate Maurice Sendak, one of my early idols, author of some of my favorite books, provider of countless happy hours. Where the Wild Things Are has been called " The most suspenseful and satisfying nursery tale of our time." How many of you can recite the opening lines illustrated here? "The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another, his mother called him "WILD THING!" and Max said, "I'LL EAT YOU UP!" You know what comes next--Max is sent to bed without his supper and that night he sails off into a great adventure. What song did you and your kids sing for the wild rumpus? After Max has tamed the Wild Things, after the wild rumpus, he feels tired and longs to be "where someone loves him best of all" and so gets up to leave. The Wild Things say to him, "Oh, please don't go, we'll eat you up we love you so." Sendak said he modeled so...