It was heartbreaking to learn this morning that Maurice Sendak passed away. I grew up on Sendak's books, they just always seemed to get it. I've always loved how as soon as you open a Sendak book you're immediately in this mystical, dark forest - even if the book is about a bakery. He created the most fantastic places to go. His illustrations capture all the awesome things that make the wilderness so enchanting no matter how old you are. The drawings above are some of my favorite images of trees, ever. Sendak was probably just as responsible for my love of all things misty and verdant as the real-live forests themselves.
And check out this incredible behind the scenes photograph from the
filming of Where the Wild Things Are taken by the father of the actor playing Max:
wild in the wild.
Illustrations by Maurice Sendak
Photo of Max by Shawn Records
