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Feral Fun
Every parent with a kid five or older has probably read at least a few of Maurice Sendak's books aloud-oh, about a hundred times. But you and your children have probably never experienced those stories in quite the way you will at CMOM this season.
Leaf through a Sendak family photo album and meet the relatives who inspired the monsters in Where the Wild Things Are. Dress up like a "wild thing" and scamper off into the forest, cook something up "in the night kitchen," or peruse books on Rosie's front stoop. Kids can even slide into a bowl of Pierre's favorite "chicken soup with rice." Where The Wild Things Are: Maurice Sendak In His Own Words and Pictures, on view mid-January through mid-April, combines hands-on activities with photographs, music, letters, text panels, and original illustrations from 11 of Sendak's books. They range from beloved classics like Really Rosie to less well-known works like The Goat and Other Stories and In Grandpa's House.
"I don't believe that the kid I was grew up into me," Sendak once commented. "He still exists somewhere in the most graphic, physical way. I communicate with him-or try to-all the time." In the process, Sendak has communicated his vision of childhood-dreamlike, vulnerable, and often poignantly funny-to millions of kids and parents everywhere.
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