Of course, a brother is to help you, a package is to look inside, arms are to hug with, and a book is to look at. And also “a hand is to hold up when you want your turn.” “A party is to say how-do-you-do and shake hands” and also “a party is to make little children happy.” What would you say about eye-brows? Miss Krauss and the many children who made suggestions, re-visions, additions (and subtractions) to this book say, “Eyebrows are to go over eyes.” A face? “A face is something to have on the front of your head.”Īlso, “a face is so you can make faces.” Hands? Well, hands are to hold. Wild things holding a wild rumpus, baby-stealing goblins, a family of bears, a naked boy falling into a big bottle of milk, a mischievous pig who wants a party Maurice Sendak is gone, but his characters will live on forever.Children will take this book of words and pictures to their hearts. Sendak agrees, and the quote appears on the cover of Colbert’s book, which happened to be released May 8, the same day Sendak died. When Sendak remarks, “The sad thing is, I like it,” Colbert asks if he can use that as a blurb. He’s equally mystified and tictickled when the Comedy CeCentral satirist shows him a copcopy of “In the Night Kitchen” witwith Mickey’s bare buttocks and genitalia cut out, especially ly wwhen Colbert reveals that he keepkeeps all the censored parts in a plasticplĬolbColbert read his own children’s bookbook, “I Am a Pole (And SoĬan You!),” calling it “terribly, supremely ordinary.” When asked about the cucurrent state of children’s bbooks, he gives an emphatic onone-word answer: abysmal.īut he gives a thumbs-up to the Curious George series anand to Dr.
Sendak is outspoken, ffeisty and full of wit.
SSendak earlier this year, you can still checkc it oout online. (I think it’d be scarier forfo a kid to see an image of a neutered childch and wonder: what happened to him?) hh If you missed Stephen Colbert’s hysterical two-part interview with Some parents and school librarianslib even went as far as whiting in out his tiny genitalia or painting diapersdi on him. I remember the big controversy aboutab Mickey being naked in some of theth scenes. Like a Little Nemo strip, it begins andan ends with the little boy in bed.
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