Where the Wild Things Really Are: Inside Maurice Sendak

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Where the Wild Things Really Are Inside Maurice
Sendak

• A Sample In-Depth Project byTerri Street,
  Adjunct Professor
• LIS5183Fall, 2007

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Maurice The Boy

• Born Oct. 6, 1928
• Brooklyn, NY
• Son of Polish immigrants
• Mutt and Jeff
• Art Students League
• Atomics for the Millions

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Maurice The Man

• Ridgefield, CT
• Single
• Author andillustrator

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Maurice The Artist

• Caldecott, 1964
• Stage designer
• Producer
• Film
• Theater

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Maurice The Legacy

• Where the Wild Things Are
• In the Night Kitchen
• Outside Over There

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Works Cited

• Cech, John. Angels and Other Wild Things The
  Archetypal Poetics of Maurice Sendak.
  Philadelphia, PA Pennsylvania State University
  Press, 1996.
• Lane, Thelma G. The Art of Maurice Sendak. New
  York Abrams, 19??.