Book of the week: Where the wild things are.

I couldn't talk of any other book today, for the author and illustrator of this children's best-seller, Maurice Sendak, has died today at 83 years-old. He started as an illustrator in the early fifties and afterwards he soon started to write his own children's book. Mr. Sendak's stories, characters and illustrations are not the typical ones found in children literature. The stories are kind of nightmarish, the characters are not necessarily nice and cute and the illustrations have gloomy colors. But the books never stopped selling and Mr. Sendak's was considered one of the most important children's book artist of the 20th century.

His most famous book "Where the wild things are" has been a best-seller for almost 50 years. We obviously have one copy here at home and we also have a DVD with some of the stories that became animations. 

Also, here's a good article from the New York Times, that was published today about Maurice Sendak.