After learning much in our class on Monday about the picture book story, "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak, I wanted to find out a little more information about him. Surprisingly, I found out that NPR conducted an interview with the interesting author! The following link:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4680590
This is Maurice Sendak at 76, as Jennifer Ludden found after a trip into the New England woods to interview the famed author and illustrator of books for young readers, best known for 1964's Where the Wild Things Are.
"Maurice Sendak looks kinda like a Wild Thing," Ludden notes. "Curly hair on a balding head... a glint in the eye... yet a softening smile around the mouth."
^-- it is funny because I thought the same thing when I saw this picture of him. I had a total different look in my mind, and after seeing his true self, it made me think of him as a monster himself!
Sendak changed his style of not a scary book to writing a story called "Bears." The drawings put Max, the hero of Wild Things, in slightly friendlier surroundings. But he still finds himself in the middle of an adventure.
Here is a picture of the book:
Our pesky little Max is no longer against society from his authorative mother. Or maybe it is? I am tempted to go out and look for this book at Barnes and Noble to read!
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