RIP Maurice Sendak (1928 – 2012)

“Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.”


Yesterday the legendary author and illustrator of children's books like Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen Maurice Sendak passed away at the age of 83. Sendak was an inspiration to me and to so many others out there as he bucked the trends of his time and produced such wonderful works both artistically and conceptually.  Here's a link to the author's New York Times obituary and to a collection of fantastic interviews he did with Fresh Air's Terri Gross on NPR.