![]() ![]() But let me share a Sendak secret with you. We've read it to our grandchildren in the last decade and we fully expect that one day they will be reading it to their grandkids, too. We read it to our children when it was first published forty years ago. ![]() Our own tattered copy is a Moyers family keepsake. Just look at these titles: In the Night Kitchen Higglety Pigglety Pop Outside Over There Chicken Soup With Rice and of course, the most loved and famous of all, Where the Wild Things Are. He's won nearly every major prize for children's literature plus the National Medal of Arts. No one does children's stories like Maurice Sendak - over a hundred books in all. Millions of us have already been there, with a passport stamped by a virtuoso of the imagination. We take a break this week from politics and public affairs to enter the strange and wonderful world of Maurice Sendak. ![]()
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