1 / 12

Maurice Sendak (1928-)

Maurice Sendak (1928-). Taylor Newsome Hannah McInturff. Life. Genre, subjects, themes, or concepts. Sendak wrote picture books that evoked a lot of emotions and promoted creativity in children Most of his books were fantasies

jorryn
Download Presentation

Maurice Sendak (1928-)

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Maurice Sendak (1928-) Taylor Newsome Hannah McInturff

  2. Life

  3. Genre, subjects, themes, or concepts • Sendak wrote picture books that evoked a lot of emotions and promoted creativity in children • Most of his books were fantasies • Many of his books were controversial. In the Night Kitchen depicted nudity. Critics said the illustrations in We're All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy were “nightmarish” to children • Most of Maurice Sendak’s books were about very different thingsincluding monsters, goblins, and magic. • A main theme in his books is resilience- overcoming something or showing growth and survival and not giving up

  4. Distinction from Others • Sendakcreated pictures that were unusual and not always perfect. Instead they were true to their nature, which sometimes meant the illustrations were scary. • He has a very active imagination and is very creative with both his writing and his illustrations. • He also did not only stick to writing books. He made his book into an opera and, later, into a motion picture. He also produced the television series Little Bear • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjkfjdY-GDI

  5. Writing/Illustrating Style • Sendak spent a significant amount of time on each of his books • Always wrote the whole story first before starting illustrations • Each illustration was sparked by text • Illustrating was his passion more so than writing

  6. Books

  7. Where the Wild Things Are • This book is about a boy named Max who misbehaves so his mother sends him to his room. Once there he embarks on an adventure and meets a group of “wild things.” Max proves himself to be very brave and is named “king of the wild things.” They have a great time together and he is sad to leave them when his trip is over. His mother has dinner waiting for him upon his arrival back after his adventure.

  8. Teaching Suggestions • Students can create and decorate their own “wild thing” • Then they can write their own story about the adventures they would go on with them • Watch the movie then use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-PqqifyjA

  9. Awards • Received the Caldecott Medal for Where the Wild Things Are. • He has also received the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award, the National Medal of Arts (for picture books), Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, and the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.

  10. Books • Kenny's Window (1956) • Very Far Away (1957) • The Sign on Rosie's Door (1960) • The Nutshell Library (1962) • Alligators All Around (An Alphabet) • Chicken Soup with Rice (A Book of Months) • One Was Johnny (A Counting Book) • Pierre (A Cautionary Tale) • Where the Wild Things Are (1963) • HiggletyPigglety Pop!, Or: There Must Be More to Life (1967) • In the Night Kitchen(1970) • Ten Little Rabbits: A Counting Book with Mino the Magician (1970) • Some Swell Pup or Are You Sure You Want a Dog (1976) • Seven Little Monsters(1977) • Fantasy Sketches (1981) • Outside Over There(1981) • We Are All in the Dumps with Jack and Guy (1993) • Maurice Sendak's Christmas Mystery (1995) • Mommy? (2006) • Bumble-Ardy (2011) • He illustrated more books than he wrote • Illustrated over 50 books

  11. References • "Maurice Bernard Sendak." Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6Th Edition (2011): 1. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Mar. 2012. • Maurice Sendak (1928-). “Something about the Author”. Vol. 165. Detroit: Gale, 2006. p192-200. • http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/maurice-sendak/about-maurice-sendak/701/ • RICHARD M., GOTTLIEB. "Maurice Sendak's Trilogy: Disappointment, Fury, And Their Transformation Through Art." Psychoanalytic Study Of The Child 63.(2008): 186-217. Academic Search Complete. Web. 19 Mar. 2012.

More Related