Goodnight Maurice Sendak. Let the wild rumpus start.

[duchesse]

here

Oh. How sad.

"In the Night Kitchen" is our favourite here.

oh, sad.

I know that book off by heart.

Does anyone else make up the words for the pages without?

He was quite a character by all accounts.

Ah. What a marvellous legacy he has left.

Yes, we make up the words!

We make up words too.

How sad I loved his work as a child and so does DD now. He's gone to the place where the wild things are I hope they welcome him and make him their king

Loved his work
This is where he thinks he is....

Sendak shared his life for 50 years with Eugene Glynn, a psychoanalyst. His partner's death in 2007, and those of increasing numbers of friends, had left him "caved in" with grief, he said, and his own view of death was typically unsentimental.

"I want to be alone and work until the day my heads hits the drawing table and I'm dead. Kaput," he told one interviewer. "I feel very much like I want to be with my brother and sister again. They're nowhere. I know they're nowhere and they don't exist, but if nowhere means that's where they are, that's where I want to be."

poor man

I hope he had some comfort from knowing how much he had enriched people's lives

I think he did, I read somewhere else he talked about when he had received a drawing from a wee boy, saying he liked his book. He sent the wee one a postcard with a drawing on it to thank him for writing and subsequently received another letter from the child's mother saying "Jim was so pleased with your card he ate it" Apparently Sendak loved this.... bet Jim is kicking himself now