Then one day my sister abandoned me at the 1939 World's Fair, and that incident is the essence of In the Night Kitchen. I was standing there with hundreds of other people waving back at the little midgets dressed like bakers when I turned around and my sister was gone! The next thing I know I'm screaming and crying and policemen are taking me to a big place with tons of kids who had all been abandoned like me. At least I was old enough to give them a name and an address.
Maurice SendakChildren do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.
Maurice SendakI never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.
Maurice Sendak'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.
Maurice Sendak