![]() ![]() Above, you also listen to James Gandolfini read the story at Sendak's 80th birthday in 2008. 25 on the American Library Association’s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 1990-2000, and, in 1981, was turned into a trippy, wonderful short film. And the fact that anyone could carry on about such an issue does not speak well for our culture.” ![]() “And to have it all reduced, so to speak, to a child’s penis, is embarrassing. “It’s one of my favorite works, and it’s a rather complex work,” Sendak told NPR’s Terry Gross in 1993. Here are a few other things about Maurice Sendaks real life you might not have known. Libraries refused to carry the book, or drew diapers over Mickey. He’s almost baked in a pie by three bakers, makes an airplane out of dough, and slides down a giant bottle of milk-all in the nude. A proposed sequel to Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic Where the Wild Things Are has ended after his publisher sought an injunction, claiming breach of copyright. This 1971 children’s book might be Sendak’s most controversial story: In it, a little boy named Mickey, who is disturbed by noises on a lower floor, has a dream in which all of his clothes disappear, and he takes a fully naked romp through a place called the night kitchen. ![]()
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