MAURICE SENDAK POCKET GUIDE p Maurice Sendak 1928-2012 is the acclaimed American children's book author of classics such as Where the Wild Things Are recently made into a movie, Outside Over There and In the Night Kitchen. p p Sendak's as important - and as adored - as Theodore Geisel Dr Seuss. This study also considers Sendak's illustrations for fairy tales, such as the Brothers Grimm pictures, collected in The Juniper Tree. p p There is also a chapter on Maurice Sendak and Walt Disney, later works such as Dear Mili, and a discussion of Sendak and other book illustrators. p p Fully illustrated. With bibliography and notes. 192 pages. ISBN 9781861713087. p p www.crmoon.com p FROM CHAPTER ONE p p MAURICE SENDAK begins not with the pictures, as one expect, but with the words. He has explained on a number of occasions that his written texts have to be 'very good before one considers illustrating them.' The words are important, because they locate the pictures within a particular narrative