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Tag Archives: Maurice Sendak
Bringing Up Baby—in Grad School
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My Childhood Love for Krauss/Sendak
Ruth Krauss’s children’s literature, often illustrated by Sendak, recognized and empowered me as a child.
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Unexpected Book Bans
Book bans were on the rise in the 2023-24 school year–sometimes for understandable reasons, sometimes not.
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The Fascist Right Goes for Sendak
The authoritarian Christian right has now begun going after public libraries, one of which recently had Sendak’s “In the Night Kitchen” pulled.
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The Good News: Dragons Can Be Defeated
Chesterton gave Neil Gaiman the idea that we love fairy tales because they assure us that dragons can be killed.
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Sendak and Children’s Interior Worlds
Maurice Sendak knew how the honor the interiority of children.
Sendak and Dr. Seuss to the Rescue
In my last entry I mentioned the key role that books can play in the lives of children. I’d like to follow that up here, officially adding the category of “children’s classics” to the “great literature” to which this website is devoted.There is artistry to many of the children’s stories that we remember fondly. When […]
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