Beloved author, illustrator Maurice Sendak will be celebrated in his native Brooklyn at Antiquarian Book Fair
Brooklyn BookBeat: Book fair coming to Greenpoint Sept. 8-10
At the upcoming Brooklyn Antiquarian Book Fair, Sept. 8-10 at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, the world of Maurice Sendak comes vividly alive. In celebration of the inauguration of a new Works on Paper section, the fair will mount a gallery-style exhibition and sale of Sendak’s original works — his first solo show to be held in his native Brooklyn, now more than five years after his death in 2012.
He is considered the most important children’s book artist of the 20th century. When his iconic book, “Where the Wild Things Are,” was published more than 50 years ago, his editor commented that it was “the first American picture book for children to recognize that a child has powerful emotions — anger and fear, and after the anger is spent, to be where someone loves him best of all.”