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The day I met Maurice Sendak...
In keeping with the theme of Terrible Yellow eyes and Where the Wild Things are these are some photos I wanted to share. Back in the early 80's when Wild Things was a traveling play Maurice Sendak was in KC promoting said play at a book signing. As you can see I was no more than 5-6 years old and brought my favorite Wild things stuff toy to have Mr. Sendak sign. Each foot of the toy was signed by Sendak. One foot with Sendak's signature and the other made out to me. One of the truly great childhood memories! One of the many reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. So glad my illustrator father took me to this event. I am sure he knew one day I would be thankful for such a meeting.
The day I met Maurice Sendak...
In keeping with the theme of Terrible Yellow eyes and Where the Wild Things are these are some photos I wanted to share. Back in the early 80's when Wild Things was a traveling play Maurice Sendak was in KC promoting said play at a book signing. As you can see I was no more than 5-6 years old and brought my favorite Wild things stuff toy to have Mr. Sendak sign. Each foot of the toy was signed by Sendak. One foot with Sendak's signature and the other made out to me. One of the truly great childhood memories! One of the many reasons I wanted to become an illustrator. So glad my illustrator father took me to this event. I am sure he knew one day I would be thankful for such a meeting.