Remembering the Wild And Wonderful Maurice Sendak
10 May 2012
Children's book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died this week at 83 years old. He is pictured here in 2006.
JUNE SIMMS: Welcome to AMERICAN MOSAIC in VOA Special English.
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I’m June Simms. This week on our program, we play new music from Jack White…
And we remember the wildly creative American author and illustrator, Maurice Sendak…
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Maurice Sendak and "Where the Wild Things Are"
JUNE SIMMS: America lost one of its greatest writers and illustrators this week. Maurice Sendak died May eighth of problems linked to a stroke. He was eighty-three years old.
Maurice Sendak's work helped redefine children’s literature. Shirley Griffith has more about the man and his most popular book.
SHIRLEY GRIFFITH: Maurice Sendak was the writer and illustrator of more than one hundred children’s books. But, he is best known for “Where the Wild Things Are,” published in nineteen sixty-three. Its main character is a little boy named Max, who is a hero to millions of children.
Max’s mother sends her son to his room without dinner when he starts acting like a wild animal. But, once there, his imagination sends him even farther. He watches as his room disappears and a forest grows. Max begins his trip on a nearby sea:
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