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☆ How Maurice Sendak Lived With His Own Wild Things
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Elisabeth Egan | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On a frigid Wednesday afternoon, sunbeams poured into Maurice Sendak’s studio in Ridgefield, Conn., crisscrossing one another with the precision and warmth of the children’s books that were born in this room. Sendak died almost 12 years ago, but his studio is exactly as he left it. Standing among Sendak’s books, art and ephemera, it was easy to imagine that he’d stepped out for his daily three-mile jaunt down Chestnut Hill Road. Surely he’d come back, pop in a Mozart CD and get cracking on a new project. There were his walking sticks by the front door; there were his poster paints, wearing price tags from an art store that closed in 2016.

Persons: sunbeams, Maurice Sendak’s, Sendak, he’d Locations: Ridgefield, Conn, cardigan, Chestnut

☆ The Wild Beauty of Moss
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Jenny Comita | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +4 min

And yet moss — unassuming and literally underfoot — has long been overlooked by Western naturalists. In fact, some of the most popular plants known as moss are not actually mosses (Irish moss belongs to the carnation family; Spanish moss is a bromeliad). SOPHIA MORENO-BUNGE, the founder of the Los Angeles floral design studio Isa Isa, especially enjoys working with Spanish moss around the holidays. In Los Angeles, moss can be hard to come by, but farther north, it’s a defining element of the landscape. The Portland, Ore.-based floral designer Françoise Weeks uses several types to create her abstract woodland wall sculptures, which also feature curling bark, dried seed pods and wildflowers.

Persons: Emily Thompson, “ Moss, ”, “, they’ve, Wall Kimmerer, Moss, Kimmerer, SOPHIA MORENO, BUNGE, Isa Isa, Maurice Sendak, Kelly Wearstler, Françoise Weeks, Weeks Organizations: New York Locations: Kingdom, New York, Angeles, Los Angeles, Portland, Pacific

☆ Opinion | What I Read to My Son When the World Is on Fire
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Miriam Udel | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +7 min

Children’s books, which present subtle truths in simple terms, offer a valuable tool in retaining our moral bearings, especially amid a maelstrom of grief and rage. In the books I read with my son, I saw the Palestinian children’s authors of today doing something I recognize from my research on the Yiddish children’s literature of the previous century: striving to help children make sense of the world they stand to inherit while writing a better world into being. Instead of reinforcing conventional nationalism, these works followed the general tendency of Yiddish literature, art and film to explore how culture might define a nation. They were created to write a better world into being: Now we must use them to read a better world into being. Children’s literature can’t solve these problems.

Persons: I’ve, Emily Style, Maurice Sendak, Naomi Shihab Nye, Hannah Moushabeck’s “, Amahl, Marjorie Ingall, Janice Hechter’s, ”, “ Daniel, Ismail ”, Juan Pablo Iglesias Organizations: Palestinian, West Bank, Aida Locations: Gaza, Palestinian American, Palestine, ”, Old City, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Israel

NEW YORK (AP) — A new digital audio edition of Maurice Sendak's “Where the Wild Things Are” will have a very well known narrator: former first lady Michelle Obama. HarperCollins Publishers announced Tuesday that the audio download will go on sale Oct. 31, the 60th anniversary of the book's original release. Michelle Obama has read from “Where the Wild Things Are” before. In 2016, she and President Barack Obama acted out the classic picture book for an Easter event at the South Lawn of the White House. His other books included “In the Night Kitchen,” “Chicken Soup with Rice” and “Outside Over There.”Copyright 2023 The Associated Press.

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☆ How Hard Could It Be to Translate a Picture Book?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Daniel Hahn | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Over its 60 years, “Where the Wild Things Are” has been translated into several dozen languages. The inadequacy of the world’s “Where the Wild Things Are” translations is one of my pet peeves. Sendak’s book is marvelous across so many dimensions, and I feel the losses keenly — more keenly than is perhaps reasonable. But I believe my job as a translator is to preserve all the dimensions of a book, not just one of them. And some of the most complex books I’ve reconstructed have been children’s picture books.

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☆ Library Of Congress Reveals The 88 'Books That Shaped America'
▼ + stars: | 2012-06-22 | by ( Michael B Kelley | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

'Where The Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak Wikimedia CommonsThe Library of Congress has opened a "Books that Shaped America" exhibition that features the books that have "shaped Americans’ views of their world and the world’s views of America." AdvertisementThe initial list of 88 books spans from Experiments and Observations on Electricity (1751) by Benjamin Franklin to The Words of César Chávez (2002) by César Chávez and presents old standbys in between (i.e. The exhibition, on view from June 25 through Sept. 29 in the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C., is intended to "spark a national conversation on books written by Americans that have influenced our lives," according to Librarian of Congress James H. Billington. Related storiesThe Library of Congress is asking readers to take a survey about the books and nominate books that aren't on the list. Check out the full list below:AdvertisementSEE ALSO: Does Jon Stewart REALLY Read All The Books For Author Interviews?

Persons: Maurice Sendak, Benjamin Franklin, César Chávez, Thomas Jefferson, James H, Billington, Jon Stewart Organizations: Congress, Washington , D.C Locations: Washington ,

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