As a boy, Maurice Sendak rallied the neighborhood children at his Brooklyn stoop to hear his film-inspired stories. Today, his tales of “how children get through the day” are recognized all over the world–only in their most famous form, illustration.
Where The Wild Things Are
“An illustrator, in my own mind, is someone who so falls in love with writing that he wishes he had written it and the closest he can get to is illustrating it,” says illustrator Maurice Sendak. “You have to find something unique in this book, which perhaps even the author wasn’t entirely aware of, and that’s what you hold on to and that’s what you add to the pictures—a whole other story that you believe in, that you think is there.”
Be sure to check out Maurice Sendak’s biography and see how his work has even influenced costume making!
