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Maurice Sendak Knew Enough to Put the Bite Back in Children’s Stories

M Is for Menace

In a visit with the late children’s book author several years ago, Andrew Romano discovered a prickly, witty man who knew that good children’s stories are always full of threat and danger. Plus, Jimmy So on Sendak's best works.

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