Maurice Sendak

...here are the highlights. Where The Wild Things Are Reviews of this Spike Jonze adaptation of the classic children's story by Maurice Sendak have been mainly favourable in the US, and it looks set to be the dominant kid's film of the...

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...the understated... Watching "Gentlemen Broncos" sparks the pressing question: "Is it worse to be clueless or self-... In Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are," less -- 10 sentences, 37 pages, 338 words --... Invariably funny...

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...popular series Best in Children's Books." On top of the Warhol (and Dr. Seuss and Beatrix Potter) works, a very are edition of Maurice Sendak's first picture book will be on the block. It's titled Good Shabbos, Everybody and "was...

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Amanda Craig is dismayed by Dave Eggers's verbose reworking of Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak's classic children's picture book The current vogue for rewriting or adding sequels to children's classics, from Winnie-the-Pooh to A...

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...studio's back wall, and the east and west walls display noncommissioned paintings by Evans, who counts artists from Picasso to Maurice Sendak to Kadir Nelson, a contemporary artist and friend in California, as his inspirations. Unexpected is...

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...reinforces its urban-lit cred with unprecedented explicitness. And those all follow the hit Where the Wild Things Are, the Maurice Sendak classic adapted with great care (and perhaps greater liberty) by Spike Jonze. Of course, saying these...

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Contact: 800-487-1136; hpfantrips.com Make it a wild weekend at home or away. Read "Where the Wild Things Are" by Maurice Sendak. Then take a walk in a nearby park or forest and use your imagination to talk about the adventures of...

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...startled by fireworks and flame effects. "Where the Wild Things Are" (PG). Some parents may decide that this adaptation of Maurice Sendak's beloved picture book is too intense to be a family film, but they'll be surprised at how easily...

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...that the famed illustrator and author called "my crowning achievement." "It is charming -- vintage Sendak," says Jonathan Eaton of the sets Sendak created. Eaton's Opera Theater of Pittsburgh will produce Krasa's uplifting story of...

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...says the author. "Or wet your pants. Do whatever you like. But it's not a question that can be answered." Sendak, we're sure, is a nice guy. Sendak famously based the monsters in his story on the strange, non-English-speaking foreign...

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