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Maurice Sendak, Still Popping Up

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Maurice-Sendak-Still-Popping-Up.mp3 Author John Cech Air Date 11/17/2006 Maurice Sendak Transcript You’re hearing Jean Shepard reading the opening lines from one of the most important American picture books of the 20th century, Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are. The Wild Things are turning 43 this fall, but they had already been […]