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In June 2023, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed HB2789, which protects libraries from external restrictions to book collections. As a tribute, Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago's central library, set up a rack of unbanned books.
I'm amazed at the titles certain people wanted banned. "Where the Wild Things Are"? "Lord of the Flies"? Children and teenagers have been reading those for years, with no ill effect.
BTW, a real-life "Lord of the Flies", where six shipwrecked teenagers were marooned on a deserted island for almost a year and a half before being rescued, had a happy ending.
www.theguardian.com/books/2020/may/09/the-real-lord-of-th...
Dr. Seuss!?? "The Lorax" spoke for the trees! And after what happened to chestnut, elm and ash trees in the United States in the last 120 years because of man's ability to spread disease and insects to places they never were before, it's too bad he wasn't able to speak earlier.
If you don't want your children "indoctrinated" by books that offend you, don't bring them to the library. Set up a library at home, consisting of books approved by you. And if your children, protected from ideas you find unacceptable, grow up unable to adapt to a world that is changing whether you want it to or not... Well, you made your choice. Choose wisely.
My submission to a competition inviting people to design the Where The Wild Things Are edition of film magazine Little White Lies.
This little paper toy of Maurice Sendak's character, Max, was designed by Dutch paper engineer, Marshall Alexander. Alexander very generously provides the template to make Max, free of charge here: www.marshallalexander.net/
of A Moth of Mail project.
In honor of Maurice Sendak's passing I chose a Where the Wild Things Are postcard...
good bye Maurice... miniaturerhino.blogspot.com/2012/05/month-of-mail-day-8.html
Illustration from Sendak's most famous book, Where the Wild Things Are.
Seen in the exhibit "Wild Things Are Happening: The Art of Maurice Sendak" at the Columbus (Ohio) Museum of Art.
'last copy there! This is a really good Spanish translation version. Almost everything's the same as the original.
Here’s the text from the sign that was at the house:
In 1983 Pacific Northwest Ballet’s founding artistic directors Kent Stowell and Francia Russell collaborated with celebrated children’s author Maurice Sendak (best known for “Where the Wild Things Are”) on a new Seattle Nutcracker production. Sendak subsequently released an illustrated book of the original story using his drawings and designs for the ballet.
That same year Marshall Field’s department store in Chicago capitalized on the book release and commissioned Sendak to create figures for it’s[sic] famous holiday window displays from his designs. After the holiday season ended Sendak suggested the figures be given to PNB for their Nutcracker production and they were trucked across the country where they appeared for 30 years in the lobby of the Seattle Opera House each December. Countless photos were taken with them through the decades. After the Sendak/Stowell production was retired in 2014 the figures were acquired by John Carrington, long-term Principal harpist for the ballet, to be displayed at his storybook home in Ballard.