Wednesday, May 9, 2012

oh please don't go - we'll eat you up - we love you so

Author/Illustrator Maurice Sendak passed away this week. He wrote my all-time favourite children's book - Where the Wild Things Are (1963). The story is only 338 words long, but along with the ferociously fabulous drawings and Max's terrible eye-rolling, teeth-gnashing adventure, the book captures the wild world of childhood so well!


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Now...here are some fierce artistic renditions inspired by the Wild Things!
LET THE WILD RUMPUS START!!!

illustrated by Ana Galvan
illustrated by Craig Watkins

*this last image was found reblogged a billion times on Tumblr. 
if anyone knows the original artist, please let me know so I can credit him/her properly!


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If you want to see more, visit Terrible Yellow Eyes - a website entirely dedicated to artwork inspired by the Wild Things. Click here for the link!


Here's to childhood. I hope we never lose the wild thing in all of us.


2 comments:

  1. SOOOOOOO CUTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! love the book, i wasn't really a fan of the movie :/

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    1. yah... the book was definitely better than the movie... =S haha

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