‘Where the Wild Things Are’ tells the story of Max, who is sent to bed without supper and travels to a land of monsters, where he promptly becomes their king. Here, Sendak poses with a model of one of his creations at an exhibition dedicated to his work at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan in New York.
GlobalPost pays tribute to one of the 20th century's most innovative and iconic writer-illustrators.
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