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This Avengers-Themed Sendak Tribute Is Just Plain Lovely
In memory of the great Maurice Sendak, artist Agarthan Guide has created this unlikely (yet wonderful) mashup of The Avengers and Where The Wild Things Are. I think I've found my new desktop background.
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What Was Your Favorite Children's Book Growing Up And Why?
Culture Buzz Today's a good day to celebrate how important children's books are to kids growing up. What book helped shape you and still sticks with you today?
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President Obama Gets Really Into Reading “Where The Wild Things Are”
Culture Buzz This is beyond priceless. From today's White House Easter Egg Roll, here's the President, Michelle Obama and Bo reading the Maurice Sendak classic to children.
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Watch Stephen Colbert And Maurice Sendak Get High On Markers
TV Buzz Old people using inhalants seems to be a thing this week! Here's the conclusion of Stephen Colbert's highly entertaining interview with “Where The Wild Things Are” author Maurice Sendak, during which the curmudgeonly legend reviews Colbert's new children's book, “I Am A Pole (And So Can You),” before teaching him how to illustrate… while high on markers.
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Stephen Colbert's Highly Entertaining Interview With Maurice Sendak
TV Buzz Who knew the children’s book author was so hilariously crotchety? Stephen and Maurice talk “Where The Wild Things Are,” why his book featuring a naked boy was banned (hint: all of the penises!), and the true definition of “wild rumpus.”
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Image: Van Gogh’s Where The Wild Things Are
If Van Gogh liked Maurice Sendak, he would've painted this. Also, WANT.
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Video: Maurice Sendak Talks “Wild Things”
The famously misanthropic author behind the book seems visibly enthusiastic about Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers's predictably twee, luscious film adaptation set to open this fall. Not that we weren't going to see it, but when Maurice Sendak gives something the ok, it goes to the top of the list.
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Image: Terrible Yellow Eyes
Because of the upcoming movie release, I've been really loving all things Wild recently. This site is a collection of works that are inspired by Where the Wild Things Are, and it's all fairly awesome. Via DesignWorkLife.
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Video: Obama Reads ‘Where The Wild Things Are’
Oh man. It's only 10:00, and I'm already emotional. I also appreciate that he reads Sendak just like he would a State of the Union.
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Image: Wild Things Vs. Watchmen
Goldenfiddle points out the disturbing yet unavoidable parallels between Watchmen and Where The Wild Things Are. I hear Spike Jonze inserted an awkward sex scene set to “Hallelujah”, too.
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Image: Where the Wild Things Are
A couple new still images from Spike Jonze's long-awaited movie of Where the Wild Things Are are online. Tragically, we still have almost a year of additional waiting before it finally comes out. But it will be amazing!
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Maurice Sendak
Culture Buzz The beloved children’s writer and illustrator — of books like Where The Wild Things Are and Chicken Soup With Rice — recently turned 80, and is still as sad, angry, and misanthropic as ever. After undergoing triple-bypass surgery and losing his partner of 50 years, Sendak is a dark and depressing figure who has brilliantly managed to provide generations of adoring children with a legendary canon of fantasy subversively steeped in his own gloomy disposition.
