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Sendak was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Polish Jewish immigrants Sadie (née Schindler) and Philip Sendak, a dressmaker. [3] [4] [5] Maurice said that his childhood was a "terrible situation" due to the death of members of his extended family during the Holocaust which introduced him at a young age to the concept of mortality. [6]
In the Night Kitchen is a children's picture book written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak, first published in hardcover in 1970 by Harper and Row.The book depicts a young boy's dream journey through a surreal baker's kitchen where he assists in the creation of a cake to be ready by the morning.
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Starting in 2003 Spike Jonze and his frequent collaborator Lance Bangs began to film a series of interviews with author Maurice Sendak. Sendak spoke about his youth, family, thoughts on death, and his career and some of the controversies that came from his books Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. [1]
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In the documentary Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009), Sendak describes his awareness in 1932 (around age 4) of the sensational Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, including a newspaper photograph of the child's remains. That experience showed him the mortality and peril of children, which the adult Sendak expressed in ...
First edition (publ. Harper & Brothers) Kenny's Window is the first children's picturebook that was written and illustrated by Maurice Sendak. [1] Originally published by Harper and Brothers Inc., it tells the story of a young boy's quest for a garden that he sees in his dream, [2] which involves answering seven questions given to him by a four-legged rooster in that dream.