Search Results by tag: Maurice Sendak

Q&A: Richard Davies on Abebooks’ $25,000 Maurice Sendak sale

On May 25, a copy of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are sold for $25,000 (U.S.) at Abebooks, a Victoria-based online marketplace for new, used, and rare books. The sale came just two weeks ... Read More »

June 4, 2012 | Filed under: Bookselling

Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are, dies at age 83

By Katie Gowrie

Where the Wild Things Are, 1963 He is known for upending the traditions of American children's fiction - for taking it out of the safe confines of the home and plunging it into darker, more ... Read More »

May 8, 2012 | Filed under: Authors

Book links roundup: Toronto arts community comes together in support of Derek McCormack, Obama and the Wild Things, and more

By Sue Carter

Derek McCormack fundraiser is tonight President Obama takes his reading of Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are very seriously Inside Frances Hodgson Burnett's real secret garden Steve Carrell stars in live-action adaptation of Judith ... Read More »

April 10, 2012 | Filed under: Book links

Maurice Sendak tells those looking for Wild Things sequel to go to hell

By Sue Carter

"I do not believe I've ever written a children's ... Read More »

December 22, 2011 | Filed under: Authors, Book news

Bookmarks: The Tao of Wu, zombie hunter S. Thompson, and St. Anne of Green Gables

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Following in the footsteps of Kanye West and 50 Cent, NPR reports that The Wu-Tang Clan's Robert F. Diggs (aka The RZA) is the latest rap artist to pen ... Read More »

October 20, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Bookmarks: Terminatrix Palin, Wild Things art, and the interactive Proust questionnaire

By Alison Potstra

Sundry links from around the Web: Sarah Palin's HarperCollins editor has a double life, The Daily Beast reports. He also helped work on the satirical title published during Palin's VP run, Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles Just ... Read More »

October 13, 2009 | Filed under: Book news

Canadian kids’ authors on long longlist for rich Swedish prize

By Stuart Woods

Two Canadian storytellers and one Nova Scotia literacy group are in the running for the world's richest children's literary prize. Ottawa kids' novelist Brian Doyle, Quebec author and illustrator Marie-Louise Gay, and Read to Me!, ... Read More »

September 19, 2008 | Filed under: Awards

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