I… didn’t know he was still alive to begin with, so I’m not sure to be sad that he just died or happy that he at least lived this long–and there’s also a selfish part of me that’s frustrated because I never find out that people like this are still alive until they’re not anymore. It happened that way with Rosa Parks and Madeleine L’engle.
Today in French class we started a unit on “The Little Prince”. The teacher wanted to demonstrate how certain characters, like the little prince, become incredibly iconic, so she had put together a PowerPoint of some such characters. We had Curious George, Mike Mulligan (with the Steam Shovel), Harold (with the purple crayon), and so on – and, of course, Max.
Thank you, Maurice Sendak, for Max, and for the stories you created that let us escape to other lands, including the wild ones.
Incidentally, did any of you see Sendak’s interview on the Colbert Report, not too long ago?
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.†Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.†That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.â€
– Maurice Sendak
He also did a very amusing interview on the Colbert Report. Just google that and his name–there’s two parts.
What? Oh, no… Oh gosh. Right in the childhood. (Chicken Soup With Rice, Where The Wild Things Are…)
I’m sad now.
*cries quietly*
I refuse to believe this.
It’s not true, he’s just gone off to live with the Wild Things.
That would be a good afterlife.
No.
NO.
That’s not true. It can’t be.
Oh.
*silently goes off to cry*
I…
I don’t know how to react to this.
I… didn’t know he was still alive to begin with, so I’m not sure to be sad that he just died or happy that he at least lived this long–and there’s also a selfish part of me that’s frustrated because I never find out that people like this are still alive until they’re not anymore. It happened that way with Rosa Parks and Madeleine L’engle.
wait… if he wasn’t alive to begin with… then who made all those books?
Bibliophile meant that en (she?) didn’t know Maurice Sendak was still alive, not that he was never alive. Obviously he was alive at some point…
Today in French class we started a unit on “The Little Prince”. The teacher wanted to demonstrate how certain characters, like the little prince, become incredibly iconic, so she had put together a PowerPoint of some such characters. We had Curious George, Mike Mulligan (with the Steam Shovel), Harold (with the purple crayon), and so on – and, of course, Max.
Thank you, Maurice Sendak, for Max, and for the stories you created that let us escape to other lands, including the wild ones.
Incidentally, did any of you see Sendak’s interview on the Colbert Report, not too long ago?
“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.†Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.†That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.â€
– Maurice Sendak
He also did a very amusing interview on the Colbert Report. Just google that and his name–there’s two parts.
RIP where the wild things are.