![]() (Could it happen to me?) His mother is prone to dark moods. He suffers odd anxieties-he’s unnaturally distressed by the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. He only watches the stickball games in the Brooklyn streets. Already, at this tender age, oversized, shambling fears throw shadows over Maurice Sendak. In fact, another kind of great depression will tincture his moods and work throughout his lifetime. ![]() He has lived almost every year of his young life in something grown-ups call The Great Depression. The little Jewish boy, the yingl, lies nervously awake in the dark. The night Max wore his wolf suit and made mischief of one kind and another As anticipation builds, we explore the enduring power of this beloved story, which continues-after nearly 50 years-to unleash our collective imagination. ![]() Now Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers have created a movie based on Sendak’s illustrated fantasy. But kids clamored for the book, and parents soon fell under its spell, too. Maurice Sendak’s 1963 children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are first struck critics and teachers as too dark for little darlings. ![]()
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