Marcus will be speaking at the Sesquicentennial Authors Series event at the Columbus Metropolitan Library's main branch on Sunday.
Q: You met Sendak several times over the years. What do you think would surprise people about him, people who know him mainly from books like “Where the Wild Things Are”?He was a very serious man, and a very funny man. I think he thought that people trivialized children's books as an art form, and he was as committed an artist as you could ever meet. And he was completely self-taught. He was also a very serious collector of art and literature.
It's one of the most magical moments in all of children's literature.Picture books are stories told in two languages, words and pictures, and when they're done well, they set something into motion that is completed in the reader's mind. The reader has to put the two parts together and create the final version of the story. Everybody does it in their own way. Picture books appear to be so simple, but they aren't. It's not simplicity, it's distillation.
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