Maurice Sendak on his work, childhood, inspirations

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Maurice Sendak talks about his work, childhood and inspirations, in a DVD by the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, www.rosenbach.org. The Rosenbach is the sole repository of the original artwork of famed author and illustrator Maurice Sendak and a foremost authority on all things Sendak. Author of Where the Wild Things Are and nearly 100 other books, Sendak, now 81 years old, chose the Rosenbach to be the permanent home of his work in the early 1970s thanks to shared literary and collecting interests. The Rosenbach's Sendak collection is the largest collection of Sendakiana in the world, with over 10,000 preliminary sketches, final drawings, manuscripts, books, and ephemera.

The DVD, "There's a Mystery There: Sendak on Sendak: A Retrospective in Words and Pictures" explores the masterful storytellers extraordinary career through his own words as the author talks about his favorite characters and the many influences and settings of his richest stories. Get the DVD at www.rosenbach.org! Produced by Portia Productions.

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  • Very interesting , the respect he had for children. Was it too harsh, or do we coddle our youth today, protecting them from a world that they already know ,too well from an early age?

  • Very cool! Maurice Sendak is awesome.

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  • good for you standing up for your gay lover maurice

  • Yet you like Pete Townshend....who used a credit card to access a website advertising child pornography, for so called "research".

    And you talk a lot about "fags"and "queers"....confused much?

  • Don't waste your time with this devolved mouth breather called Atish Raja

    Just vote his comment down and flag it as spam and viola....mouth breather muzzled.

    Rest in peace Maurice.

  • umad?

  • Let me just be the first to say! you are a backwards inbred fucking retard who should learn to have some respect instead of having stupid and out dated views on people just becuse of there sexual prefrence, why dont you go burn some witches or stone some of them black folk. Dumb shit..

  • ewww he was a gay and he wrote childrens books disgusting

  • Rest in Peace Maurice Sendak

  • Depth of feeling and insight....  RIP Maurice.

  • Peace be upon you, Maurice.

  • Heavens lucky to have you!

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