Maurice Sendak Quote

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly.Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem.What is an only goat? A lonely goat, answered Kenny.The rooster shut one eye and looked at Kenny.can you hear a horse on the roof? he asked.If you know how to listen in the night, said Kenny.Can you fix a broken promise?Yes, said Kenny,if it only looks broken,but really isn't.

Maurice Sendak

Can you draw a picture on the blackboard when somebody doesn't want you to? asked the rooster promptly.Yes, answered Kenny, if you write them a very nice poem.What is an only goat? A lonely goat, answered Kenny.The rooster shut one eye and looked at Kenny.can you hear a horse on the roof? he asked.If you know how to listen in the night, said Kenny.Can you fix a broken promise?Yes, said Kenny,if it only looks broken,but really isn't.

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About Maurice Sendak

Maurice Bernard Sendak (; June 10, 1928 – May 8, 2012) was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak illustrated many works by other authors, such as the Little Bear books by Else Holmelund Minarik. He achieved acclaim with Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the first of a trilogy followed by In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). He designed sets for operas, notably Mozart's The Magic Flute.
In 1987, Sendak was the subject of an American Masters documentary, "Mon Cher Papa". In 1996, he received the National Medal of Arts. Per Margalit Fox, Sendak, "the most important children's book artist of the 20th century", "wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche."