![]() ![]() After graduating from high school in Brooklyn, Sendak, who developed a love of drawing as a boy, took art classes at night and in 1948 found work as a window display designer at FAO Schwarz, the Manhattan toy store. His father, a dressmaker, lost a number of family members during the Holocaust, and that tragedy that haunted the younger Sendak. He was sickly and spent much of his time indoors. Sendak, whose parents were Jewish immigrants from Poland, described his own childhood as unhappy. First published in 1963, Where the Wild Things Are was pioneering in its realistic depiction of childhood anxieties and rebellious behavior at a time when many stories for young readers presented a sugar-coated version of life. On June 10, 1928, author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, who revolutionized children’s literature with such best-selling books as Where the Wild Things Are and became one of the most celebrated children’s authors in contemporary history, is born in Brooklyn, New York. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |