MAURICE SENDAK: POCKET GUIDE Maurice Sendak (1928-2012) is the acclaimed American children"s book author of classics such as Where the Wild Things Are (recently made into a movie), Outside Over There and In the Night Kitchen. Sendak"s as important - and as adored - as Theodore Geisel (Dr Seuss). This study also considers Sendak"s illustrations for fairy tales, such as the Brothers Grimm pictures, collected in The Juniper Tree. There is also a chapter on Maurice Sendak and Walt Disney, later works such as Dear Mili, and a discussion of Sendak and other book illustrators. Fully illustrated. With bibliography and notes. 192 pages. ISBN 9781861713087. www.crmoon.com FROM CHAPTER ONE MAURICE SENDAK begins not with the pictures, as one expect, but with the words. He has explained on a number of occasions that his written texts have to be "very good before one considers illustrating them." The words are important, because...