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• Thursday, Jan 19, 2012

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  Where the Wild Things Are

  Inspiration: Scary relatives, an inability to draw horses

  Fun fact: Where the Wild Things Are was originally going to be called Where the Wild Horses Are. The only problem was that as it transpired, Maurice Sendak couldn’t draw a convincing horse to save his life. In the end, his despairing editor changed the title on the faith that if Sendak couldn’t do horses, he could “at the very least draw ‘a thing.’” The “things” he drew ended up being caricatures of the “hideous” family members who’d visit the young Sendak’s house on a Sunday afternoon. “I drew my relatives,” he admitted to the Los Angeles Times in 1993. “They’re all dead now, so I can tell people

  The inspiration behind your favorite children’s books

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  • #where the wild things are
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      book when I was little =)

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