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Sunday, June 5, 2011

The best of the books of Maurice Sendak

Maurice Sendak
Maurice Sendak is an  National Medal of Arts man.He illustrated more than a hundred picture books throughout his 60-year career.  Some of the best  books include Chicken Soup with Rice, Where the Wild Things Are, and In the Night Kitchen.  Born in Brooklyn in 1928 to Jewish immigrant parents from northern Poland . He could not wait to share with her daugher.Her favorite films, my favorite foods, my favorite places and of course the works of Maurice Sendak.  Sendak grew up idolizing the storytelling abilities of his father, Philip, and his big brother, Jack—as a child he illustrated his first stories on shirt cardboard provided by his tailor-father.  Aside from a few night classes in art after graduating high school, Sendak is a largely self-taught artist.  Throughout his career, he has taken characters, stories, and inspirations from his among his own neighbors, family, pop culture, historical sources, and long-held childhood memories.  Sendak began a second career as a costume and stage designer in the late 1970s, designing operas by Mozart, Prokofiev, Ravel, and Tchaikovsky, among others.  He has won numerous awards as both an artist and illustrator.Below of the five books for family...




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