If you Googled anything on Monday (including TheWrap), you probably noticed a pretty sweet rotating animated Doodle. The drawing is a tribute to "Where the Wild Things Are" illustrator and author Maurice Sendak's 85th birthday. Unfortunately, Sendak is not alive to see it. Also read: Maurice Sendak, 'Where the Wild Things Are' Creator, Dies at 83 Sendak, who died on May 8, 2012 at age 83, was also the writer of the somewhat controversial "In the Night Kitchen," which is represented in the animated tribute. The spinning Doodle, which depicts "a walk around the world,"...
- 6/10/2013
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
A wild rumpus is happening on Google right now!Today’s Google Doodle celebrates what would have been the of 85th birthday of Maurice Sendak, beloved children’s book author and illustrator of classic works such as Where The Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen. On the homepage, users can click on the character Max, which then takes viewers through a journey among the wild things — highlighting Sendak’s beautiful drawings and famous characters.Before Sendak passed away last year, he went on The Colbert Report for a seriously memorable interview about kids, writing, and writing for kids.
- 6/10/2013
- by Erin Strecker
- EW.com - PopWatch
Maurice Sendak, the beloved author of Where The Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen and other classics is the subject of the latest Google Doodle--the search engine's homepage makeover tribute--in honor of his 85th birthday. Sendak passed away a little more than a year ago, on May 8, 2012, His 85th birthday would have been on June 10. The Google homepage features Max in his monster pajamas. Clicking on the image brings up an animated journey through Sendak's books beginning with Where the Wild Things Are and running through his last book, Bumble-ardy.
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- 6/10/2013
- by Andy Lewis
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
(In honor of Banned Books Week (September 30-October 6, 2012) we are reprinting this list from the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, and will be reprinting lots of stuff from them over the coming week to highlight their efforts. Donate now! —Cm)
Banned Books Week is upon us, and it’s telling that the event is more relevant than ever in its 30th year. Given their visual nature and the rampantly held misconception that comic books are for children, comics are among the most challenged and banned books in libraries and schools. Let’s take a look at some frequently challenged and banned comics…
Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Jr., and Scott Hanna
• Location of key challenge: A middle-school library in Millard, Nebraska
• Reason challenged: Sexual overtones
The parent of a 6-year-old who checked out the book filed a complaint and took the story to the media...
Banned Books Week is upon us, and it’s telling that the event is more relevant than ever in its 30th year. Given their visual nature and the rampantly held misconception that comic books are for children, comics are among the most challenged and banned books in libraries and schools. Let’s take a look at some frequently challenged and banned comics…
Amazing Spider-Man: Revelations by J. Michael Straczynski, John Romita, Jr., and Scott Hanna
• Location of key challenge: A middle-school library in Millard, Nebraska
• Reason challenged: Sexual overtones
The parent of a 6-year-old who checked out the book filed a complaint and took the story to the media...
- 9/30/2012
- by Betsy Gomez
- Comicmix.com
He was a curmudgeon who didn’t have children, didn’t especially like children, and yet was probably the most noted children’s book writer and illustrator in the past fifty years, J.K. Rowling notwithstanding. He was Maurice Sendak and he died May 8th at age 83 after a stroke.
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
Sendak was famous for many books, especially Where The Wild Things Are, a favorite in our house. I got my Mary the full set of the McFarlane figurines and we saw and liked the movie version (many people didn’t but we did, nyah nyah).
He was infamous for books like In The Night Kitchen because its hero is a young boy named Mickey who falls out of his night clothes and runs around naked. As Lewis Black might put it, “Some people see pictures of a little boy’s wee-wee and it makes them want to cry.” It’s gotten...
- 5/13/2012
- by John Ostrander
- Comicmix.com
"I don’t write for children," Maurice Sendak said when being interviewed by Stephen Colbert. "I write. And somebody says, ‘that’s for children.’” But children – and adults – everywhere will be sad today at the news that the beloved author behind Where The Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen has died at the age of 83.Kicking off his career in the late 1940s, Sendak worked more as an illustrator than a writer, with more than 100 picture assignments to his name compared to the 20 or so that he actually authored himself. But his impact on the world of literature was immense.He became best known for Where The Wild Things Are, which arrived in 1963 and became an instant, if controversial hit. He was faced with even more controversy with In 1970s The Night Kitchen, which landed on the list of most challenged and banned books thanks to its depiction...
- 5/8/2012
- EmpireOnline
Children’s author Maurice Sendak has passed away this morning at the age of 83 due to complications of a stroke. His death marks the official end of your childhood, but you were getting super-old anyway, so… While Sendak leaves behind classic books like Where The Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen, he also left us something much more beautiful in recent months: his pure, unadulterated grump. It seems like a fitting testament to the man to revisit some of the amazing quotes from his January interview on The Colbert Report. Then let’s bake ourselves up some dough suits and fly through the night in our dream planes, tiny kid wiener’s flapping, because at least Maurice would have probably thought that was funny: “It’s an interesting point of view, but not interesting to me, particularly.” “Newt Gingrich is an idiot of great renown…There is something...
- 5/8/2012
- by Halle Kiefer
- BestWeekEver
"Please don't go. We'll eat you up, we love you so"
- Maurice Sendak, "Where The Wild Things Are"
Only a few days after the death of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, more sad news has arrived today, with The New York Times reporting that Maurice Sendak, author of beloved children's classics "Where The Wild Things Are" (which was turned into an acclaimed 2009 film by Spike Jonze) and "In The Night Kitchen," among others, has passed away at the age of 83.
Sendak, the child of Polish Jewish immigrants, was born in Brooklyn in 1928, and set his heart on becoming an illustrator after seeing Walt Disney's "Fantasia" at the age of 12. He worked on books for other authors for years, most notably Else Holmelund Minarik's "Little Bear" series, before gaining fame of his own accord in 1963 for "Where The Wild Things Are," the story of an unruly boy in a wolf...
- Maurice Sendak, "Where The Wild Things Are"
Only a few days after the death of Beastie Boy Adam Yauch, more sad news has arrived today, with The New York Times reporting that Maurice Sendak, author of beloved children's classics "Where The Wild Things Are" (which was turned into an acclaimed 2009 film by Spike Jonze) and "In The Night Kitchen," among others, has passed away at the age of 83.
Sendak, the child of Polish Jewish immigrants, was born in Brooklyn in 1928, and set his heart on becoming an illustrator after seeing Walt Disney's "Fantasia" at the age of 12. He worked on books for other authors for years, most notably Else Holmelund Minarik's "Little Bear" series, before gaining fame of his own accord in 1963 for "Where The Wild Things Are," the story of an unruly boy in a wolf...
- 5/8/2012
- by Oliver Lyttelton
- The Playlist
For so many of us, the words of Maurice Sendak were an imperative part of our childhoods. His transcendent and timeless tales, particularly the classic Where The Wild Things Are helped shape us into the adults we’ve become. Perhaps that’s why the 83-year-old author/illustrator’s appearance on Tuesday night’s episode of The Colbert Report struck such a nerve with fans whose lives he had impacted. Well, that, and it was so unbelievably, wake-the-person-next-to-you hilarious, it will live on your DVR forever.
Sendak, who sat down with future President of South Carolina (keep the faith!) Stephen Colbert...
Sendak, who sat down with future President of South Carolina (keep the faith!) Stephen Colbert...
- 1/25/2012
- by Aly Semigran
- EW.com - PopWatch
Maurice Sendak, the author of whimsical children's classics like Where The Wild Things Are and In The Night Kitchen, is... not so whimsical. In fact, he comes off as kind of a d*ck, even going so far as to insult a fellow kids writer, the late Roald Dahl. Dang. Curmudgeon alert.
Dahl's The Bfg will be a movie
First Look: Matilda The Musical
Patricia Neal dies at 84
But Sendak is also self-hating: "I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person."
Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that." Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting.
Dahl's The Bfg will be a movie
First Look: Matilda The Musical
Patricia Neal dies at 84
But Sendak is also self-hating: "I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person."
Of Salman Rushdie, who once gave him a terrible review in the New York Times, he says: "That flaccid fuckhead. He was detestable. I called up the Ayatollah, nobody knows that." Roald Dahl: "The cruelty in his books is off-putting.
- 10/4/2011
- by Anna Breslaw
- Celebsology
The weekend’s here. You’ve just been paid, and it’s burning a hole in your pocket. What’s a pop culture geek to do? In hopes of steering you in the right direction to blow some of that hard-earned cash, it’s time for the Quick Stop Weekend Shopping Guide - your spotlight on the things you didn’t even know you wanted…
(Please support Quick Stop by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Those fans that have only experience the butchered editions of weird and wonderful The Mighty Boosh that have been running on Adult Swim need to run - not walk - to their favorite DVD emporium and snag copies of the new-to-the-us unexpurgated editions of The Mighty Boosh seasons 1-3 that have now been collected into the massive Mighty Boosh Special Edition DVD set (BBC,...
(Please support Quick Stop by using the links below to make any impulse purchases - it helps to keep us going…)
Those fans that have only experience the butchered editions of weird and wonderful The Mighty Boosh that have been running on Adult Swim need to run - not walk - to their favorite DVD emporium and snag copies of the new-to-the-us unexpurgated editions of The Mighty Boosh seasons 1-3 that have now been collected into the massive Mighty Boosh Special Edition DVD set (BBC,...
- 10/16/2009
- by UncaScroogeMcD
With the release of the new Spike Jonze re-imagining of the children’s book Where The Wild Things Are this week, it’s only natural that there is a corresponding flurry of Wild Things merchandising. This DVD, Where the Wild Things Are…And 5 More Stories By Maurice Sendak, is a re-release of the animated version of the book from 1973. It is not a re-master in any sense of the word… but that’s okay. I think that for a lot of people, myself included, seeing stories from their childhood in a pure form, unchanged from how we remember them, is comforting. In addition to the eponymous story, the collection has one other reading of In The Night Kitchen and four shorter Sendak books that were made into songs. As a collection, it is transparent; there are no improvements or rare insights. The set is for people who grew up with...
- 10/16/2009
- by Michael Epstein
- JustPressPlay.net
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