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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2012-05-08 01:40 pm
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Oh. Maurice Sendak. As the NYT says, Sendak's books were "Roundly praised, intermittently censored and occasionally eaten". And still are, the first and last, where I come from.
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[identity profile] avalonjones.livejournal.com 2012-05-08 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
This news really makes me sad. Some of the magic has now gone out of the world.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-05-09 12:13 pm (UTC)(link)
I know. The giants of our childhood are leaving.

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2012-05-09 05:02 am (UTC)(link)
I love that quote. Thank you for it.

Got to hear old NPR interviews with him, and love his *love* of life as well as his books. Whew... I'll miss him.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-05-09 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You're welcome.

It's an old daycare axiom: 'Babies Need Books-- for roughage.'

[identity profile] i-am-zan.livejournal.com 2012-05-10 07:27 am (UTC)(link)
*sigh* - another of my childhood memories ... RIP.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2012-05-10 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
But generations of people know the Wild Things, which isn't a bad legacy.
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