Maurice Sendak died this morning.

[david4wt]

Maurice Sendak, the children’s author and illustrator best known for the 1963 classic ‘Where the Wild Things Are’, died early Tuesday in Danbury, Conn., at age 83, four days after suffering a stroke.

source: http://rookpost.com/75/maurice-sendak-author-of-where-the-wild-things-are-dies-at-83/


"Please don't go. We'll eat you up. We love you so."

🙁

 

[Black Eye Guy]

Aw. I loved this book as a kid, I had totally forgotten about it till the adds for the movie came out.

The visuals sprung to mind immediately, great book.

 

[david4wt]

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious "” and what is too often overlooked "” is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.

I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

He was a bit too keen on the psychoanalytic point of view in my opinion, but he really was great and insightful about children's inner world.

 

[Abbeycat]

I really liked this book as a child. Great, great quote from the book, David.

 

[Skytteflickan88]

We just discussed this in a child & youth literature course I had last month. Sad.