The enduringly popular children's book illustrator and writer radically changed the genre with tales of outsized monsters and frolicsome humor that tapped into the fears of childhood. He also collaborated on numerous operas, films and TV programs.Maurice Sendak, the children's book illustrator and author whose unsentimental approach to storytelling revolutionized the genre and whose best-known tale was the dark fantasy "Where the Wild Things Are," has died. He was 83. Continue reading at 'Los Angeles Times'
[ Los Angeles Times | 2012-05-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ PC World | 2011-02-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The New York Times | 2011-01-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
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