Synopsis:
First English edition. A collection of essays and reviews devoted to a wide variety of writers and illustrators, ranging from Randolph Caldecott, George MacDonald, and Beatrix Potter to Harriet Pincus, Maxfield Parrish and Walt Disney. With a section of autobiographical essays and interviews, as well as Sendak's memorable acceptance speech for the Caldecott Medal in 1964. Notes on first publications. Illustrated. With lengthy review of this book by Gillian Avery loosely inserted. viii , 216 pages. cloth, dust jacket. small 8vo..
From Publishers Weekly:
This seems to be the year of Maurice Sendak. On the heels of Dear Mili comes this slim anthology of his essays and musings on writing and illustrating for children. It reveals a formidable intelligence, and a remarkable degree of empathy with fellow toilers in what is too often regarded as a somewhat lesser field of endeavor: as if writing and drawing for children were a distinctly second-best activity. Without being weighty about it, Sendak shows the degree of imagination, craft and humanity that goes into the best of this work. There are notably generous appreciations of well-known artists like Randolph Caldecott, Beatrix Potter and Jean de Brunhoff, and sharp-eyed essays on Andersen, the "Mother Goose" tradition and the best and worst of Walt Disney. There are also more ephemeral pieces like award acceptances, interviews and brief prefaces to booksthough almost none is without some worthwhile observation. What comes through above all is Sendak's open-hearted admiration for craft and respect for true, ageless imagination. Illustrations not seen by PW.
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