Maurice SendakA collection of 28 posts

Women

Girls are infinitely more complicated than boys and women more than men. And the...

Trust

To get a child's trust – you may know or not – is a very hard t...

Respect

What I do as best I can is out of a deep respect for children for how difficult...

Music

There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books.

Music

I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff I love classical...

Money

I mean being a child was being a child was being a creature without power wit...

Humor

My father could be very witty even if the humor was always on the darker side o...

Hope

I've convinced myself – I hope I'm right – that children d...

Hope

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don...

Health

My life in Brooklyn was in constant danger because of my bad health.