![]() ![]() ![]() Though the toy store declined to purchase the brothers’ work for reproduction, they were impressed with Sendak’s artistic eye and asked him if he’d be interested in a job dressing windows. Schwarz in 1948 to try to get the company to purchase their handmade, fairytale-inspired wooden toys. Maurice Sendak and his brother visited Manhattan’s F.A.O. ![]() Here are a few other things about Maurice Sendak's real life you might not have known. When Sendak-who was born on June 10, 1928-started illustrating and writing for children, he vowed that he wouldn't write stories of sunshine and rainbows, because that's not real life. Maurice Sendak's books were shaped by his own childhood: one marked by the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the concentration camp deaths of most of his extended family, and parents consumed by depression and anger. ![]()
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