Sunday, May 13, 2012

Goodbye, Maurice Sendak

What Do You Do, Dear? by Sesyle Joslin, illustrations by Maurice Sendak













Having grown up in the East of Germany, I wasn't introduced to his books until the Berlin Wall came down and I was in my mid-twenties. When I moved to the US and found this one, I thought it summed up perfectly one of the differences between German and American parenting...

Terry Gross did several wonderful interviews with Maurice Sendak over the years. You can listen to them here.

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