Illustrator of over a hundred books and author of a dozen including Where the Wild Things Are and In the Night Kitchen, Maurice Sendak died today following a stroke he suffered last Friday. (Full Washington Post obituary here.)
Not too long ago, Stephen Colbert sat down with Mr. Sendak to discuss his work and to get some useful criticism from the master of children’s picture books. The two parts of the interview were perhaps the funniest segments I’ve ever seen on The Colbert Report.
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