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Who was...?Haidle, Elizabeth
Summary: Brings to life the childhood experiences of beloved artists and illustrators such as Wanda Gág, Maurice Sendak, and Jerry Pinkney. Stylish illustrations paired with small vignettes and anecdotes from the artists' early lives helps illuminate the hard work, triumphs, failures, and inspiration that helped forge their successful careers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Etch, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 HAICech, John.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pennsylvania State University Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.54 CECCott, Jonathan
Summary: "An extraordinary, path-breaking, and penetrating book on the life and work and creative inspirations of the great children's book genius Maurice Sendak, who since his death in 2012 has only grown in his stature and recognition as a major American artist, period. Polymath and master interviewer Jonathan Cott first interviewed Maurice Sendak in 1976 for Rolling Stone, just at the time when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SENDAK, MAURICE COTSummary: A companion guide to an exhibition at the Society of Illustrators features over two hundred illustrations by the artist, including previously unpublished pieces, preliminary drawings, and variant art for his famous works.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams 2013
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 741.642 MAUSummary: Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: The nutshell kids: A group of alligators sing their way through the alphabet, Johnny playfully counts from 1 to 10 and then back again, Pierre flaunts an "I don't care" attitude until an encounter with a lion, and learning the months of the year is fun while eating chicken soup with rice. Where the wild things are: Max sails away to the land of the wild things. In the night kitchen: A little...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2001
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MAUSummary: This is a deeply moving portrait of Maurice Sendak, a seminal talent who is conflicted with his success, and whose lifelong obsession with death has subtly and ironically influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his first book, Where the wild things are, which he wrote after spending ten years as an illustrator. Through his own words, firsthand photos, and illustrations, Sendak...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TELMaguire, Gregory.
Summary: The best-selling author of the Wicked Years series presents a visual tribute to the art of Maurice Sendak, in a book that examines Sendak's aesthetic influences from William Blake to Walt Disney; looks at recurring motifs in his work, as well as his profound understanding of the imaginations and emotions of children; and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.6 MaguirePascal, Janet B
Summary: "It seems entirely fitting that Maurice Sendak was born on the same day that Mickey Mouse first made his cartoon debut--June 10, 1928. Sendak was crazy about cartoons and comic books, and at twelve, after seeing Disney's Fantasia, he decided that he was going to become an illustrator. His love of childrens books began early: often sick and confined to bed, little Maurice read and read and read....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 SENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET SENDAKRoiphe, Katie
Summary: "In this category-defying book, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She examines the final days of five great writers and artists. Here is Susan Sontag, the ultimate intellectual, finding her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Here is Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for London only...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Dial Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 ROIMarcus, Leonard S.
Summary: A collection of interviews with fourteen artists and writers of picture books who, regardless of their country of origin, have had a major impact in the United States
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2002