Maurice Sendak, Children’s Author Who Upended Tradition, Dies at 83

[bijou]

Maurice Sendak, widely considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century, who wrenched the picture book out of the safe, sanitized world of the nursery and plunged it into the dark, terrifying and hauntingly beautiful recesses of the human psyche, died on Tuesday in Danbury, Conn. He was 83 and lived in Ridgefield, Conn. ...

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/09/books/maurice-sendak-childrens-author-dies-at-83.html?_r=1

[Chris_]

Condolences to his family.

I grew up reading Roald Dahl.  I guess 'Where the Wild Things Are' didn't make that much of an impression on me compared to children-eating giants and a pair of filthy kidnapping monsters who baked children into pies.