Illustration by Maurice Sendak, from Charlotte and The White Horse by Ruth Krauss.
More Reading Suggestions, in honor of the coming spring:
Spring Is Here by Taro Gomi; Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms by Julia Rawlinson and Tiphanie Beeke; The Odd Egg by Emily Gravett; Rain Makes Applesauce by Julian Scheer and Marvin Bileck; The Story of Frog Belly Rat Bone by Timothy B. Ering.
16 March 2010 at 2:06 pm
Debbie — This is so beautiful! I’ve never seen this book before — thanks for posting the illustration (not to mention the many fabulous links). xoxo
16 March 2010 at 2:19 pm
You must read this book! The writing is so lovely and lyrical – hard to describe, but in parts it’s sort of like a sing-songy child channeling the Bible. And Sendak’s illustrations are appropriately Chagall -like.
23 March 2010 at 3:13 pm
Always love to see Sendak’s older illustrations. I think I read somewhere that he wasn’t given a chance to do his ‘own book’ until he’d been doing illustrations for others for more than 10 years.
23 March 2010 at 3:50 pm
He did illustrate a lot of books by other authors early in his career, including several by Ruth Krauss which are among my all-time favorite picture books!