The author of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, has died. He was 83. The obit in the New York Times described his legacy as wrenching “the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plung[ing] it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche.”
When Steven Colbert interviewed the author recently, it was an hilarious dip into the dark psyche of Sendak himself:
Published in 1962, Where the Wild Things Are helped set the tone for some of the most important children’s books and TV shows to come:
Sesame Street’s Early Years: Adults Only Please! from Australian Broadcasting Corporation on FORA.tv
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