
In 1992, Andrea and I spent our first Christmas together at her parents' house in Kassel. While there, I looked for a book for her in a bookstore's English books section, where I found my favorite picture book: Maurice Sendak's "Where the Wild Things Are" (1963). I thought it would

On Mastodon, Cindy Weinstein posted a quotation from Susan Sontag's 1966 essay "Against Interpretation": “The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory.” She then asked others what their earliest incantatory experience was. My response was from the same era as Sontag's essay: It was either “Mr.
Dass Stephen King Märchen kann, hat er uns schon mit Fairy Tale bewiesen, doch nun traut er sich daran die kongenialen Illustrationen von Maurice Sendak für Frank Corsaros bahnbrechende Inszenierung der Hänsel und Gretel-Oper von Engelbert Humperdinck mit seinen Worten zu erzählen.
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Stephen King hat das Märchen »Hänsel und Gretel« der Gebrüder Grimm neu erzählt. Inspiriert dazu haben ihn Zeichnungen von Maurice Sendak (»Wo die wilden Kerle wohnen«). Ist das ein Bilderbuch für Kinder oder ein Sammlerstück für King-Fans?
Judy Taylor obituary
Doyenne of children’s publishing who promoted Beatrix Potter and nurtured Maurice Sendak’s talent The writer and publisher Judy Taylor, who has died aged 93, had a long and distinguished career in the field of children’s books. Her second career as an expert on Beatrix Potter developed only after her retirement…
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/07/judy-taylor-obituary
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Street Level Zen: Family
It's an art.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/10/street-level-zen-family.html
#bodhisattva, #children, #family, #MauriceSendak, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen
Street Level Zen: Family
It's an art.
https://rustyring.blogspot.com/2025/10/street-level-zen-family.html
#bodhisattva, #children, #family, #MauriceSendak, #StreetLevelZen, #Zen