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From 'Wild Horses' to 'Wild Things,' a window into Maurice Sendak's creative process

  • Written by Katharine Capshaw, Professor of English, University of Connecticut
Preliminary drawing of title page for 'Where the Wild Things Are' (New York: Harper & Row, 1963), 26:7, The Maurice Sendak Collection.Archives & Special Collections at the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, University of Connecticut Library. © The Maurice Sendak Foundation.

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