RIP Maurice Sendak
Thank you for showing us how to be courageous, honest, and wild.
Incredibly sad news this morning — beloved children’s author and illustrator Maurice Sendak died today at the age of 83. He suffered complications after a recent stroke.
We’ll always remember Sendak for Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and his amazing, hilarious appearance on The Colbert Report this past January.
If you haven’t seen the Colbert interview, seriously… Stop what you’re doing and watch it now.
Live your Life. Live your Life. Live your Life.
— Maurice Sendak has died. We’re changing the entire show today to remember him. This quote is from his most recent Fresh Air appearance last year. (via nprfreshair)
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“This is how Maurice Sendak sometimes sent his letters. Just imagine getting one.” (via Letters Of Note)
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I have nothing now but praise for my life. I’m not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more. … What I dread is the isolation. … There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I’m ready, I’m ready, I’m ready.
— Maurice Sendak on Fresh Air in 2011. [all interviews with Sendak here] (via nprfreshair)
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Field Trip Friday: January 26, 2012
Field Trip Friday: Awards, iBooks, Sendak & Colbert, AZ censorship, NPR gender bias, Capitol Couture, BD musical & more.
