![]() ![]() ![]() This earliest version includes images of the child pulling the animals’ tails. 17, 1955, titled “Where the Wild Horses Are.” As one of the earliest forms of what would become “Where the Wild Things Are,” the book dummy contains many of the elements that would appear in the final version, including a boy who takes a journey, gets chased by monsters and sails a boat to an island. One of the items in the collection is a small, horizontal book dummy dated Nov. The making of “Where the Wild Things Are” was a journey, and the vivid materials in Sendak’s archive illuminate the level of investment that was required to complete it. It contains evidence of Sendak’s prodigious imagination and lifelong intellectual curiosity, and offers insight into how Sendak developed his ideas over time. The collection – which contains Sendak’s original sketches, book dummies, artwork and final drafts of his work, amounting to nearly 10,000 items – allows us to begin to trace the trajectory of Sendak’s creative process. Fans of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Maurice Sendak’s most famous book, might know every page by heart.īut few know the winding path it took from idea to published book – a gestation process that involved experimentation, playfulness and persistence.Īs professors of children’s literature and illustration, we are thrilled to witness the arrival of The Maurice Sendak Collection at the University of Connecticut’s Archives and Special Collections at the Thomas J. ![]()
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