Maurice Sendak's Posthumous Tribute to Brother out Feb. 5
Beloved children’s book author Maurice Sendak has one last book for us. The Where the Wild Things Are creator died last year, but left us a new book. A combination of poetry and drawings, this new book is seen as a tribute to Sendak’s brother Jack and as a farewell to his audience. ... read more
Found in: Books, NewsThis Week In News
A pop-culture news roundup for the week of May 7, 2012. read more
Found in: Culture, NewsMaurice Sendak (1928-2012)
Maurice Sendak, beloved author and illustrator of children's books, including Where The Wild Things Are is dead at the age of 83, the New York Times reported this morning. read more
Found in: Books, NewsThe 100 Best Movie Posters of the Past 100 Years
Movie posters help sell tickets, but more importantly they can be considered art. Some posters reveal the exact plot of the movie while others highlight the stars of the movie. Some are even an abstract representation of a key moment in the film. We looked at the best poster for each year, which meant leaving off of some classics. Take a look through history. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayWhere The Wild Things Are Author To Publish New Picture Book
The Caldecott-winning author of Where The Wild Things Are is set to publish a new picture book from HarperCollins. Bumble-Ardy will serve as the first book from Maurice Sendak since 1981’s Outside Over There. The book first saw life in the early 1970s as an animated segment for Sesame Street.... read more
Found in: Books, News10 Great Single-Artist Soundtracks
While famed film composers like John Williams, Danny Elfman and James Horner are typically called upon for putting together the melodies that will stir us to laugh or cry, sometimes a soundtrack is better served by calling on someone from the world of popular music. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayThe 20 Creepiest Kids' Movies of All Time
What with all the Dark Crystal sequel news that’s been flying around lately, I’ve been thinking about the original, and the slew of dark children’s movies from the ‘70s and ’80s. The opposite of brightly-colored, pop-culture-referencing Pixar flicks, films like The Secret of Nimh, The Last Unicorn and Watership Down were violent, dystopic and set in dense forests populated by bizarre creatures. Like the fairy tales from which some of them were drawn, these movies were not safe places to lose yourself. However, many of these films were feats of artistic prowess. Here is a look at 20 of the... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DaySpike Jonze Doc on Maurice Sendak Hits DVD March 2
Spike Jonze and Lance Bangs’ 40-minute doc on Maurice Sendak will hit DVD on March 2, the same day as Jonze’s interpretation of Where the Wild Things Are.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsCaldecott, Newbery and Printz Book Awards Announced
The rampant success of the recent film adaptation of Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are proves that you don’t have to be young to enjoy or learn from children’s literature. For decades, the American Library Association’s Association for Library Service to Children has been bestowing awards on the best of the best in books for children, and the winners of the three most prestigious awards for children’s books were just recently announced.... read more
Found in: Books, NewsThe 25 Best Movies of 2009
Our favorite movies of 2009 belie a diverse appreciation ranging from a quiet rumination on death to gruesome horror; from a mostly ad-libbed, low-budget character study to the most expensive movie of all time. read more
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