Maurice Sendak thought this work was his masterpiece — not ‘Wild Things’
"Outside Over There" was key to Sendak's "being and the arc of his work and life.”
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Culture Maurice Sendak’s Designs For Opera And Ballet Are A Testament To Joy
Maurice Sendak had many reasons to be unhappy. He was born to Polish Jewish immigrants in Brooklyn in 1928, and his childhood was defined by the deaths of his extended family in the Holocaust, a loss that scarred him early and deep. He was a gay man who, sure his parents wouldn’t accept him if…
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The Schmooze Long Lost Maurice Sendak Manuscript Set To Be Published
Few of us born after 1963 are without memories of our parents reading Maurice Sendak’s “Where The Wild Things Are” to us. The children’s author fit right into an era when a healthy fear of monsters was considered good for the soul. Sendak, a Polish-American Jew who was deeply affected by the loss of many…
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Fast Forward A Hilarious Interview To Remember Maurice Sendak
On May 8, 2012, beloved children’s book author Maurice Sendak, best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, passed away less than a month before his 84th birthday. To celebrate his enduring legacy and tenacious wit, we’ve pulled one of our favorite interviews (with Stephen Colbert) for your viewing pleasure: Watch Part 1:…
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Culture New York Exhibit on Children’s Books Highlights Many Jewish Contributions
‘It’s a pattern really. So many of the progressive writers and illustrators of children’s books were Jews,” says Leonard Marcus, who does not usually concern himself with the old parlor game of counting famous Jews. Marcus is curator of the New York Public Library’s exhibit on children’s literature, “The ABC of It: Why Children’s Books…
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Culture How Children’s Books Discovered Their Jewish Roots
In many ways, 2013 has afforded Jewish children’s literature the big break it has needed for some time — perhaps akin to the widespread attention that Jewish comic books and graphic novels have received for years, with their Jewish mice and superhuman men punching out Hitler. At the Chicago Humanities Festival in November, Paul Reitter,…
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Culture Searching For Jews in British Children’s Literature Beyond the Stereotypes
● Jews and Jewishness in British Children’s Literature By Madelyn Travis Routledge, 200 pages, $125 American book mavens who have delighted in growing up reading works by zesty authors who have a strong sense of Jewish identity, such as E. L. Konigsburg and Maurice Sendak, should be aware that readers in other countries are not…
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The Schmooze HarperCollins Nixes ‘Wild Things’ Sequel
Those hoping there would be a sequel to Maurice Sendak’s classic children’s book “Where the Wild Things Are” are in for a disappointment. A Kickstarter campaign to raise money for a poem called “Back to the Wild” has been suspended following a copyright complaint from HarperCollins, which published the original “Wild Things.” The U.K.-based crowdfunding…
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