Maurice Sendak on Where the Wild Things Are

Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak talks about his Caldecott-winning picture book, Where the Wild Things Are, and the 1979 opera version of the book. Sendak collaborated with composer Oliver Knussen to create the opera. This video is from a DVD by the Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, www.rosenbach.org. The Rosenbach is the sole repository of the original artwork of Maurice Sendak and a foremost authority on all things Sendak.

Author of Where the Wild Things Are and nearly 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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