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“... children through the loneliness and haplessness of childhood and the difficulties of growing up. Maurice Sendak, author and illustrator of the unforgettable dream tale Where the wild things are, has interpreted the lessons of the analyst’s couch to produce many children’s books that are copybook exempla of the Freudian – Bettelheimian – point of ...”

“... The primal scene of Marginalia takes place at a book-signing by the children’s writer Maurice Sendak. Pushed to the front of the queue by his star-struck parents, a boy begs Sendak not to ‘crap up my book’. Jackson’s central question – are marginalia crap? – has no simple answer, for her study uncovers our passionate ambivalence about unauthorised writing ...”

“... Born​ in 1928, Maurice Sendak grew up in Brooklyn, the child of Polish immigrants. On the day of Sendak’s bar mitzvah, his father learned that his family in Poland had all been killed. ‘And I was having the big party at the colonial club, the old mansion in Brooklyn,’ Sendak recalled ...”

“... for new kinds of social links’. This is what Max suggests, too, in the famous story by Maurice Sendak. When his mother calls him ‘Wild Thing!’, Max is cast outside the pale of the family, and it is then that he becomes his wolf costume and the Wild Things appear. (In the movie-and-novel version by Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers, the voyage to ...”

“... become a little wearing. Although he published two children’s books in the 1960s illustrated by Maurice Sendak, he never attempted another novel. Dwight Robbins, the president of Benton, is described as being ‘so well adjusted to his environment that sometimes you could not tell which was the environment and which was President Robbins.’ Like his ...”

“... pretty well the whole range of children’s book design, from its 17th-century beginnings to Maurice Sendak – following on from F.J. Harvey Darton’s Children’s Books in England (1932, revised edition 1982) and Percy Muir’s English Children’ Books 1600-1900 (1954). They distinguish between ‘hack’ and acceptable woodcuts in the early ...”

“... through the door than he’s quoting Zen Buddhist monks at Dr Seuss, Conversations with Kafka at Maurice Sendak, and Bachelard at Astrid Lindgren. How beautiful, how interesting, come the replies: with what intonation one can only guess. Are the poor authors overwhelmed by Cott’s erudition (in the piece on Dr Seuss alone, more than thirty-four ...”

“... edition is worth owning, aside from the fact that it is handsomely produced and has pictures by Maurice Sendak. Parker makes it clear that his reconstruction is not meant to replace the Northwestern-Newberry edition of the standard version. Nonetheless, he quite heatedly insists that his shorter version is much to be preferred. The alleged ...”