Screen LibraryWho was Maurice Sendak? /
"It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut--June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, after seeing Disney's Fantasia, he decided that he was going to become an illustrator. His...
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Grosset & Dunlap,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut--June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, after seeing Disney's Fantasia, he decided that he was going to become an illustrator. His love of childrens books began early: often sick and confined to bed, little Maurice read and read and read. Though many of his own stories were light and funny, the most important ones--Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, Outside Over There--dealt with anger, jealousy, abandonment, content that "Maurice Sendak, born June 10, 1928, was a writer and illustrator of children's books. This easy-to-read, illustrated biography describes the career and personal life of this genius"-- |
| Carrier Form: | 105 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references, pages 104-105. |
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9780448465005 0448465000 9780448465869 0448465868 |
| Index Number: | PS3569 |
| CLC: | K837.125.72 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.72/S474P |
| Contents: | Who Was Maurice Sendak? -- Looking out Windows -- Nowhere Is Safe -- The Young Cartoonist -- Open Doors -- Setting Words to Pictures -- First Loves and First Books -- Wild Things -- The Night Kitchen -- Outside -- Opera -- Old Fears -- Through the Picture. |