Where is maurice sendak buried

The former US president and First Lady gave an enthusiastic rendition of the story , complete with theatrical faces and roars, for an audience of schoolchildren in During his lifetime, he was flooded with letters from young fans all over the world — but one in particular stood out:. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it.

He didn't care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it. Skip to content. Sign in. To think something as good as this has been lying around there gathering dust. Published in , Where the Wild Things Are told the story of Max, an imaginative boy who is transported to a magical world of animals and monsters after he is sent to bed without his supper.

It was made into a live-action film, directed by Spike Jonze, in Mr Sendak, who died in aged 83, spoke in his later life of the impact on his work of the Holocaust, in which many members of his extended family perished.

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