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  Maurice Sendak - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maurice Sendak (born June 10, 1928) is an artist and creator of children's literature who is best known for his book Where the Wild Things Are, published in 1963.
A sickly child, Sendak decided to become an illustrator for children after he was influenced by Walt Disney's film Fantasia at the age of twelve.
Sendak produced an animated TV production based on his work entitled Really Rosie, featuring Carole King, which was broadcast in 1975 and is available on video (usually as part of video compilations of his work).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Maurice_Sendak   (390 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Maurice Sendak
Sendak, Maurice, born in 1928, American writer and illustrator, born in Brooklyn, New York, creator of the children's classic Where the Wild Things Are.
Sendak established his reputation as an illustrator with his drawings for A Hole Is to Dig (1952), by Ruth Krauss.
Sendak won the Hans Christian Andersen International Medal in 1970 and the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1983.
encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761562732   (286 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak: through controversy to success
Sendak started to draw as a child, because he was sick child and spent most of his life indoors.
Sendak’s mother was diagnosed with cancer in 1967 as said by Biography-Maurice Sendak.
Not only is Maurice Sendak an author and an illustrator; he also designs sets and costumes, works on videos and a children’s television series, and has founded a children’s theater company, The Night Kitchen, after his book.
www.etsu.edu /writing/adcomp_f03/Sendak.htm   (1220 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | The Guardian | Tony Kushner celebrates Maurice Sendak, an old friend
Maurice Sendak is an American Jew whose relatives died in the Holocaust.
Maurice is rather courtly in his dealings with other people, except when provoked, and even then he merely bares his teeth and growls, behaviour he may have learned from generations of canine companions.
Maurice went back to work and made the decision to turn Brundibar back into a boy; to give him Napoleon's hat; to festoon his upper lip with a moustache that threatens to become rat's whiskers; and finally, to put into the boy's head staring eyes of psychopathic blue.
www.guardian.co.uk /weekend/story/0,3605,1099755,00.html   (3718 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
For more than forty years, the books that Maurice Sendak has written and illustrated have nurtured children and adults alike and have challenged established ideas about what children's literature is and should be.
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn on June 10, 1928, the youngest of the three children of Jewish immigrants, Sarah and Philip Sendak.
Maurice Sendak currently lives in Ridgefield, Connecticut and spends a great deal of time with his three dogs: Erda, Agamemnon and Io.
www.clevelandopera.org /tour/educational/flute/sendak.html   (718 words)

  
 Wild Things: The Art of Maurice Sendak
Sendak's work is characterized by a constant push and pull between horror and beauty, and marked by his ever-present urge to find a way to deal with the Holocaust, to acknowledge those "wild things" which, ultimately, remain untamed.
Sendak's illustrations for the book tell a story in which the fate of Mili is shared by all children affected by the ravages of war, including Anne Frank and forty-four Jewish children deported by Nazi Klaus Barbie from the French village of Izieu to their deaths in Auschwitz in 1944.
Sendak's illustrations for the book tell a story within a story in which the fate of Mili is shared by all children affected by the ravages of war, including Anne Frank and forty-four Jewish children deported by Nazi Klaus Barbie from the French village of Izieu to their death in Auschwitz in 1944.
www.tfaoi.com /aa/5aa/5aa307.htm   (3981 words)

  
 The Not-So-Wild Thing - What lessons is Maurice Sendak's Brundibar really teaching? By Ann Hulbert   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sendak's is a spiky parable about the struggle for self-control, and it speaks to big readers and small listeners alike.
At the same time, Sendak's books have the power to remind adults that we can still be baffled by such primal urges ourselves—especially when we're dealing with our children, whose deep need to rely on us, and defy us, is enough to unnerve and sometimes enrage any parent.
Sendak has also dreamed up several garish new ogres (with truly awful tongues and in the case of the Hitlerian organ grinder, Brundibar, a telltale mustache).
slate.msn.com /id/2091696   (1081 words)

  
 MAURICE SENDAK
Sendak was born in New York in 1928 and grew up in Brooklyn, the son of Jewish immigrants.
Sendak's children seemed to be something new in illustration: a little dumpy, rumpled -- not "perfect" middle-class-type children as prevailed at the time (Bader 424).
Sendak's works have been adapted for film and opera, with Sendak himself contributing artistically to the stage sets and the adapted scripts.
www.northern.edu /hastingw/sendak.htm   (876 words)

  
 Morning Edition: Maurice Sendak's 'Nutcracker'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sendak's first professional encounter with Nutcracker came when he was approached by the Pacific Northwest Ballet to re-create the original E.T.A. Hoffmann story for their 1983 stage production.
The project was a natural for Sendak in the sense that Clara, like many of the children in his work, is struggling with the strange and conflicting emotions that come with growing up.
Sendak later enhanced his original set drawings for the book version of the story, which was published in 1984.
www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/2001/dec/nutcracker/011217.nutcracker.html   (543 words)

  
 BookPage Interview May 1999: Maurice Sendak
Sendak has been a stage fan since his childhood, and, in addition to writing and illustrating, has been designing sets and costumes for operas and ballets since 1970.
Sendak's tributes to Marshall are evident throughout, such as a newspaper bearing the title of one of his friend's masterpieces, The Stupids Die.
Sendak hedges when asked the dog's name, then explains that the animal already had a name when he adopted him; Sendak doesn't like the name, but the dog wouldn't answer to anything else.
www.bookpage.com /9905bp/maurice_sendak.html   (1021 words)

  
 Where The Wild Things Are: A tribute to Maurice Sendak
As a famous children's book author and illustrator, Maurice B. Sendak is one of the first writers to deal with the feelings of children openly.
Sendak has remarked that his father rarely read to him but, rather, made up superb stories that inevitably wound up in his later stories and illustrations.
The critics claim that Sendak's material is not suitable for young children but, rather, can only be appreciated by young adults because of the harsh truths in almost all his books.
www.geocities.com /SoHo/Museum/5999/sendak.html   (1922 words)

  
 Telling Stories with Pictures: The Art of Children's Book Illustration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Maurice Sendak was born in 1928 in Brooklyn, NY.
Sendak is widely known as the creator of the children's classic, Where the Wild Things Are, for which he received the prestigious Caldecott medal in 1964.
Sendak has earned recognition throughout his career not only as a writer and illustrator of children's books, but also as a designer for ballet and opera, co-founder of the Night Kitchen Theater, and the developer of plays, musicals, and films based on his books.
www.decordova.org /decordova/exhibit/stories/sendak.html   (198 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak ★ Steven Barclay Agency   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Maurice Sendak is beloved by generations for his magical illustrations and children's stories.
Sendak's finely detailed illustrations of the Caldecott prize-winning Where the Wild Things Are, first published in 1963, made him the most recognized children's illustrator in the country.
Additionally, in 2003, a new book of Sendak's illustrations and stage designs entitled The Art of Maurice Sendak: 1980 to the Present was published with text by Tony Kushner.
www.barclayagency.com /sendak.html   (336 words)

  
 Opera music lures Sendak's creative muse
Sendak's characters deal with their fears and anxieties the way Max does.
Sendak was born in 1928, the same year Walt Disney created Mickey Mouse.
Sendak's passion for opera isn't surprising given his tendency toward drama and imagination.
www.chron.com /cgi-bin/auth/story/content/chronicle/ae/music/cover/1019sendak.html   (1041 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak on Children
Maurice Sendak is 65, but he still knows what children know--that life is risky business, that there is trouble in the world, and sorrow, fear and violence--especially violence.
Maurice Sendak grew up in the Brooklyn of the 1930s, an era when mothers leaned out second-story windows and children played jacks on the stoop.
For Sendak, the third child of a Jewish couple from the Warsaw shtetls, it was an especially difficult, though artistically fertile, time to be alive.
pangaea.org /street_children/world/sendak.htm   (1281 words)

  
 MAURICE SENDAK PAPERS
Sendak's papers were created from his composition of two published books and his drawing of illustrations for Childcraft encyclopedia and for his USM medallion.
Sendak, whose books often emerged from his interest in the imagination and fantasy of childhood, earned the Caldecott Medal in 1964 for his classic picture book, Where the Wild Things Are.
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, on June 10, 1928, to Philip and Sarah (Schindler) Sendak.
www.lib.usm.edu /~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0878b.html   (924 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak, Children's Book Author   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
To add to their concerns, Maurice himself was sickly as a child.
Maurice Sendak: A Western Canon, he had many favorites.
Maurice Sendak is a man of many talents.
falcon.jmu.edu /~ramseyil/sendak.htm   (393 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak
Sendak says, “The point of my books has always been to ask how children cope with a monumental problem that happened instantly and changed their lives forever, but they have to go on living.
Maurice Sendak - Maurice Sendak children's writer, illustrator, playwright Born: 6/10/1928 Birthplace: Brooklyn, New...
Maurice Bernard Sendak - Sendak, Maurice Bernard, 1928–, American writer and illustrator of children's books, b.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0801320.html   (699 words)

  
 CNN - arts & style - Museum offers peek into Maurice Sendak's 'Fantasy World' - November 16, 1999
Sendak is perhaps best-known for such children's books as "Where the Wild Things Are" and for his illustrations in books including the "Hector Protector" and "Little Bear" series and the Grimm tale "Hansel and Gretel."
Sendak, born to Polish-immigrant parents in 1928, grew up in Brooklyn, New York.
King's "Really Rosie," a musical first aired on television in 1975, is based on songs from Sendak's books "The Sign on Rosie's Door" and "Nutshell Library." A CD of the music was issued in May on the Sony/Wonder label.
www.cnn.com /STYLE/arts/9911/16/sendak   (824 words)

  
 Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
Sendak and Tony Award-winning playwright Tony Kushner team up for a unique retelling of a classic Czech opera with compelling historical overtones -- the opera was originally performed by children in the Nazi concentration camp of Terezin.
Sendak's work has inspired a number of studies and tributes to his life and art.
Selma G. Lanes's treatment is as fun-loving as her subject, illustrated with hundreds of Sendak's sketches and squiggly line drawings, and includes full-color fold-outs, and working dummies of his major works.
www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?cid=90225   (312 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: Books: Where the Wild Things Are   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Sendak's colour illustrations (perhaps his finest) are beautiful, and each turn of the page brings the discovery of a new wonder.
Sendak's defiantly run-on sentences--one of his trademarks--lend the perfect touch of stream of consciousness to the tale, which floats between the land of dreams and a child's imagination.
Sendak is a highly-esteemed painter in a surreal style, and has made many superbly illustrated books.
www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0099408392   (1136 words)

  
 Rosenbach Museum & Library - Maurice Sendak Gallery
Maurice Sendak and author Arthur Yorinks create a slapstick comedy that meshes the worlds of Miami Beach retirement and the age of exploration.
The Maurice Sendak Gallery was inaugurated in April 2003 in conjunction with the Rosenbach Museum and Library's grand re-opening celebration.
The themes and illustrations that characterize Sendak's work have challenged the norms of children's literature over time and continue to entrance both children and adults to this day.
www.rosenbach.org /exhibitions/sendakgallery.html   (278 words)

  
 ALA | Maurice Sendak wins Arbuthnot Lecture
Sendak, who was born in 1928 and grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., now lives in rural Connecticut.
Sendak is the only American to have won the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award for Illustration, an international honor he received in 1970.
In addition to the 1964 Caldecott Medal, Sendak was also the recipient of ALSC's Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal for lifetime contribution in writing for young adults in 1983 and the National Medal of Arts in 1996.
www.ala.org /Template.cfm?Section=archive&template=/contentmanagement/contentdisplay.cfm&ContentID=14066   (358 words)

  
 MIT World » : Descent into Limbo
In this riveting and emotionally charged talk, Sendak provides a retrospective on the struggles of his early career as an artist, describing the "great giant ladies versus the suits" of the publishing establishment, discusses the symptoms of depression as they correlate to the creative process, and tells an amazing story of his search for Rosie.
On the cusp of his 75th birthday, Sendak describes his life as one "obsessed with childhood," and concludes, "over the years everything in my creative life has gradually been strengthened and newly passioned".
In 1970 Maurice Sendak was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal for his body of work, the first American to be so honored.
mitworld.mit.edu /video/65   (386 words)

  
 Maurice Sendak Collectibles - Battledore Ltd   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Whereas illustrators look to create pictures from images and styles that influence them, Sendak the artist is unique as he adapts and blends these inspirations into his own forms which take on a vitality rather than shadow the work of others.
In the shape of a small wooden book with Wild Thing designs on front cover and inner dial by Maurice Sendak, especially licensed and manufactured for the Sendak in Asia exhibition.
Commemorating the selection of Maurice Sendak as the recipient of the 1981 University of Southern Mississippi Medallion for outstanding contributions in the field of children's books.
www.childlit.com /battledore/collectibles/maurice_sendak/sendakintro.htm   (182 words)

  
 MAURICE SENDAK Wooden Mechanical WILD THING toy
Description: "Moishe" WILD THING was designed as a wooden jumping jack toy by artist Maurice Sendak about 1996, then cut out in wood and hand-painted under Mr Sendak's guidance by Fat Dog Workshop in a strict numbered and signed limitation of 50 copies.
This is Copy #36 and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity (measuring 8.5 x 11 inches) autographed in ink by Maurice Sendak (name signed in full) and dated 02:14:2000, each of these wooden toys also numbered by Fat Dog Workshop and signed by Mr.
This is their first wooden action toy based on a Sendak character after the artist's original design.
www.antiqnet.com /detail,maurice-sendak-wooden,592699.html   (271 words)

  
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Maurice Sendak is a famous Illustrator of children's books, best known for his Caldecott winning book, Where The Wild Things Are.
Maurice Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York on June 10, 1928.
Maurice Sendak plays a large role in the lives of children.
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