Maurice Sendak

scoopic.blogspot.com -Mr. Sendak has been promoting the new book largely from his home in Connecticut.
I’m engaged on another book without delay.
What does one assume differentiates your work from alternative children’s books out there?
With books these days, I’m not forever positive if they’re truthful or devoted to what’s occurring with kids. we have a tendency to remembered childhood as a awfully passionate, upsetting, silly, comic business.
I stress character, character, character. kids can go everywhere.

I was developing a toddler who I recognized as myself as a toddler, from my observations of alternative kids around me in Brooklyn. Max was slightly beast, and we’re all very little beasts. (Photo left - Maurice Sendak - John Dugdale)

Some of your books are controversial. You mustn’t scare oldsters. and that i assume with my books, I managed to scareoldsters.
I adored Caldecott. in all probability his plan, or my interpretation of him, was that kids’s books ought to be honest to children. It’s not a putdown of these earlier books.
full article at beattiesbookblog