Podcast Interview With Leonard Marcus, Children’s Books Historian and Critic and Author of Many Biographies of Children’s Book Creators I highly recommend you purchase Dear Genius by Leonard Marcus. It’s a fabulous book of letters written by Ursula Nordstrom. I’m rereading it again just now. It’s fascinating to find out the behind the scenes of…
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Sassy Interview with Maurice Sendak – For Adults Only Below is not a lecture, but an interview with Sendak, a very sassy one, and a spicy one, so I do not recommend listening to it with young kids as there are some swear words, but I found it funny and interesting. I think towards the…
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Maurice Sendak – Interviews and Documentaries
Maurice Sendak – Interviews and Documentaries Maurice Sendak ( 10 June 1928 – 8 May 2012) was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are in 1964. This wasn’t the first picture book that he illustrated but it is definitely his most important one and most well known. The book started its life…
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