@Laviniastongue @chrissiexxxx we racketed our laughter I can tell you. I feelt so sad for him, oh well Eng. lit today and 2 tmrw :)
22 May 2012, 1:45 am
@Laviniastongue @chrissiexxxx we racketed our laughter I can tell you. I feelt so sad for him, oh well Eng. lit today and 2 tmrw :)

Children's author and illustrator who kept his wild streak - Irish Times
11 May 2012, 5:04 pm
The Wild Things were actually modelled, he said, on his Jewish uncles and aunts who racketed around his childhood, unpredictably and, on the whole, in a well-intentioned if slightly threatening vein. In 2009, Sendak, discussing Spike Jonze’s film version ...

Maurice Sendak obituary - The Guardian
8 May 2012, 10:41 am
The Wild Things were actually modelled, he said, on his Jewish uncles and aunts who racketed around his childhood, unpredictably and on the whole in a well-intentioned if slightly threatening vein. In 2009, Sendak, discussing Spike Jonze's film ...