“They were unkempt their teeth were horrifying. The "things" Sendak ended up creating were inspired by his immigrant relatives and the way he viewed them as a child. Side note: Ursula Nordstrom was also the editor of a few classics like The Giving Tree, Goodnight Moon, Harold and the Purple Crayon and Charlotte’s Web among others. When he told his editor that the whole horse thing wasn’t going to work out, he recalls her “acid tone” response: “Maurice, what can you draw?” Editor Ursula Nordstrom adored the title, finding it poetic and beautiful, but there was one problem: Sendak couldn’t draw horses. Where the Wild Things Are was intended, of course, to feature fillies, foals and mares.
Where the Wild Things Are was originally titled Where the Wild Horses Are.
Schwarz for three years while taking classes at the New York Art Students League. Though the toy store declined to purchase the brothers’ work for reproduction, they were impressed with Sendak’s artistic eye and asked him if he’d be interested in a job dressing windows. Schwarz in 1948 to try to get the company to purchase their handmade, fairytale-inspired wooden toys. Maurice Sendak and his brother visited Manhattan’s F.A.O. Here are a few other things about Maurice Sendak's real life you might not have known. When Sendak-who was born on June 10, 1928-started illustrating and writing for children, he vowed that he wouldn't write stories of sunshine and rainbows, because that's not real life. Maurice Sendak's books were shaped by his own childhood: one marked by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the concentration camp deaths of most of his extended family, and parents consumed by depression and anger.
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