Maurice Sendak on his work, childhood, inspirations
One of the things that I will always be grateful to my parents for is mandating that I spend two hours every Saturday at the library. They never went with me and really had no idea what I should be reading, but they knew that I should be reading and this was there way to make sure it got done. I spent those Saturdays thumbing through sports biographies, reading about everyone ranging from Manute Bol to Martina Navratilova. It wasn’t until I became an adult that I started reading children’s lit and became acquainted with Sendak’s work. And you know what it was just as mesmerizing as adult as I any adventure I launched upon as a kid…
