Maurice Sendak in 1963. Credit Sam Falk/The New York Times.

“Reaching the kids is important, but secondary,” Sendak once said. “First, always, I have to reach and keep hold of the child in me…” With their flattened perspective, the book’s pages have the allure of the poster, brazen, sleek and sturdy [referring to “In the Night Kitchen,” 1970].

(Maria Russo, “In Praise of Maurice Sendak,” NYTimes, 2-14-19)

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