Libros así son libros amados.
Hoy no nos queda más que agradecer la vida y la imaginación y talento de este hombre.
Today Maurice Sendak would have celebrated his 85th birthday. In my opinion, he was one of the greats in kid's lit because he wrote and illustrated, in some cases, without being oversweet or producing literature that saw everything through rose-colored glasses. I believe this is why his books are still being enjoyed by legions of kids who discover them for the first time or are still reading them years later with so much pleasure. His characters, like Max and the wild things, will always be in our hearts. My bookshelves are home to many of his books and, besides Where the Wild Things Are, you'll also find Swinelake, Mummy?, written by Arhtur Yorinks; and others but the ones I take care of the most are two written by Ruth Krauss and illustrated by him: A Hole is to Dig and Open House for Butterflies. Both have definitions made by preschoolers and are delighful. I had the good luck of buying them used a few years ago and later found out that they're first editions. They're treasured though they're not in excellent condition. That doesn't bother me since the kids who read them must have done it so many times that they left them like that.
Books like those are loved.
Today we can but thank Sendak for his life, imagination, and talent.

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