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Maurice Sendak

He illustrated Harper Collins' novel "The Bear", and based on his illustrations, the animated series of the same name (39 episodes) was filmed in Canada. He appeared as an actor in the TV series (). The premiere of the film based on the fairy tale "Where the monsters live" is planned.

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In every family, where there are kids, "insurance images" live). They lie in wait for you from behind the door, from the corner, from under the bed ...
“That evening Max dressed up as a wolf and arranged a shurum-burum. And then burum-shurum. And my mother said: "Oh, you monster!" And Max said: "I'm a fear image, and I'll eat you!" And mom sent him to bed. No supper ”.
It seems that this situation is familiar to millions of parents all over the world. A child who has been so naughty that he cannot stop. And a mother who does not want to endure disobedience and impoliteness. What will happen next? Therapy for adults, how to show endurance and patience in stressful situations? An instructive story for a child, how it is impossible to behave and what happens?
Maurice Sendak tells a very different story. In it, Max goes to a magical land inhabited by Fearsimages of all sizes and stripes. There, the most courageous and fearless fear image, of course, turns out to be a little boy. He has fun with all the heart and fears. Until he gets bored and returns to his cozy home, where it smells like mom's pie. After all, not a single mother in the world will leave her child, even if it is the King of Fear-images, without dinner.
When this book, invented and painted by Maurice Sendak, first saw the light, many parents, librarians and teachers were outraged: “On the first pages, the child quarrels with his mother, and the author does not blame him for bad behavior!”
But the children fell in love with this book instantly. Probably for an honest conversation about the emotions that children experience. Yes, the children's world is sometimes populated with terrible fear images, and not always adults can and should control everything in it. Children need to learn to experience the strongest and most violent feelings themselves in order to cope with difficult life situations.
Not only children fell in love with the book “Where the monsters live”. In 1964, a year after its publication, she received the prestigious Caldecott Medal as the best illustrated book for children. Many times Sendak's story has made it onto the lists of the best children's books compiled by librarians, educators, school teachers and parents.
For artists, “Where Monsters Live” has become the standard of book illustration. Since its publication, the book has sold 19 million copies, translated into 13 languages, opera has been staged and a feature film has been shot.
In Russia, Sendak's most famous book (as well as the rest of his books) has never been published. In 1988, a Russian translation of “Monsters” with one of the illustrations was published in the magazine “Veselye Kartinki”, in 1989 it was published in Estonia in Estonian. For The Pink Giraffe, the book “Where the Monsters Live” was brilliantly translated by Evgenia Kanishcheva, one of the best translators of children's literature.

Maurice Sendak

Where the monsters live

(Maurice Sendak. Where the Wild Things Are)

Translated from English by Timur Maysak, 2011

The book about how a boy named Max visited the Land of Monsters and returned home was written and illustrated by the famous American writer Maurice Sendak. It was published in 1963 by Harper & Row and gradually gained immense popularity, and in 1964 was awarded the Caldecott Medal for Best Picture Book.

Sendak's book has become a classic of modern children's literature in the United States, it has been published in millions of copies and has been translated into many languages. A cartoon was shot based on it, an opera was staged, and in 2009 a feature-length film by Spike Jonze was released, in which, thanks to the use of modern technology, the monsters from the book were shown with amazing believability (while maintaining full similarity to the original book illustrations).

Unfortunately, Sendak's works are practically unknown to the Russian reader. At the same time, some materials about him in the USSR appeared in print. For example, in 1972, the magazine "Children's Literature" published an article by Walter Scherf with a detailed story about Sendak's work and examples of his illustrations (this article can be downloaded here: pdf). In 1988, the magazine "Funny Pictures" published translations of the books "Visiting Real Monsters" and "Happy Count" (no translator specified), and in 1989 another translation of "Monsters" was published in Tallinn, this time under the title “Where the goblin live” (translated by Enn Soosaar). However, these translations have not become famous and remain inaccessible. To fill this gap, publications from "Funny Pictures"

“That evening Max dressed up as a wolf and arranged a shurum-burum. And then a burum-shurum. And my mother said:“ Oh, you monster! ”And Max said:“ I am a fear-like, and I will eat you! ”And my mother sent him to sleep. supper ".
It seems that this situation is familiar to millions of parents all over the world. A child who has been so naughty that he cannot stop. And a mother who does not want to endure disobedience and impoliteness. What will happen next? Therapy for adults, how to show endurance and patience in stressful situations? An instructive story for a child, how it is impossible to behave and what happens?
Maurice Sendak tells a very different story. In it, Max goes to a magical land inhabited by Fearsimages of all sizes and stripes. There, the most courageous and fearless fear image, of course, turns out to be a little boy. He has fun with all the heart and fears. Until he gets bored and returns to his cozy home, where it smells like mom's pie. After all, not a single mother in the world will leave her child, even if it is the King of Fear-images, without dinner.
When this book, invented and drawn by Maurice Sendak, first saw the light, many parents, librarians and teachers were outraged: "On the very first pages, the child quarrels with his mother, and the author does not blame him for bad behavior!" But the children fell in love with this book instantly. Probably for an honest conversation about the emotions that children experience. Yes, the children's world is sometimes populated with terrible fear images, and not always adults can and should control everything in it. Children need to learn to experience the strongest and most violent feelings themselves in order to cope with difficult life situations.
Not only children fell in love with the book "Where the monsters live". In 1964, a year after its publication, she received the prestigious Caldecott Medal as the best illustrated book for children. Many times Sendak's story has made it onto the lists of the best children's books compiled by librarians, educators, school teachers and parents. For artists, "Where Monsters Live" has become the standard of book illustration. Since its publication, the book has sold 19 million copies, translated into 13 languages, opera has been staged and a feature film has been shot.
In Russia, Sendak's most famous book (as well as the rest of his books) has never been published. In 1988 a Russian translation of "Monsters" with one of the illustrations was published in the magazine "Funny Pictures", in 1989 it was published in Estonia in Estonian. For The Pink Giraffe, the book Where the Monsters Live was brilliantly translated by Evgenia Kanishcheva, one of the best translators of children's literature.
For primary school age.

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This book is also a great example of what the size of an illustration in a book means and how it plays a role in storytelling.

For Maurice Sendak, this was the first book he wrote and illustrated himself. Before that, he drew pictures for the works of other authors.

The book was first published in 1963 year at the publishing house "Harper & Row" and soon became a classic of modern US children's literature.

The original idea was different, and the book was called "Where Horses Live".

But the publisher looked at the drawn horses and said his "fi": "You, Maurice, do not know how to draw horses. Think of something else!"

This is a great example of how failure turns out to be incredible success later!

Because the idea of \u200b\u200bmonsters was born from commonplace horses!

And the book took on a completely different meaning!

Now we have a story about fantasy. But there is nothing terrible in it.

It only shows how often children repeat meaninglessly after their parents. Copy their behavior and words. But the imagination of children is so great that it completely absorbs all their thoughts. And the parents take offense later!

Who is not familiar with this situation? Perhaps everyone has heard such words! And then they themselves said!

Sendak recalled his childhood impressions of the many uncles and aunts who annoyed him during visits to their homes and said: "You are so cute that I will eat you now!"

Subsequently, Maurice Sendak also named his favorite monsters as relatives!

You know, like a joke. Family, sometimes they swear, but still loved ones and relatives.

When Sendak worked with the composer Oliver Knassen on an opera based on the book, he gave the monsters the names of his relatives (Tsippi, Moishe, Aaron, Emile and Bernard).

The simple story became very popular. And, as often happens, she began to capture other areas of art ...

Surely many remember that in 2009 came out on screens film "Where the monsters live".

There was also a cartoon, an opera ...

This story is so popular that mentions of it can be found out of the blue!

The Simpsons!

In the episode "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" of the 17th season of the animated series "The Simpsons", the book is referred to as "The Land of Wild Beasts" ( The land of wild beasts)

Children's book, you say? However, the harsh Metallica inspired to write a whole song!

American metal band Metallica based on the book wrote the song "Where The Wild Things Are" from the album ReLoad.

This story was not popular in Russia. More precisely, no one has ever fully printed it. Soviet times, you know. Not before.

At the end of 2014, the book was published by the Pink Giraffe Publishing House in Russian translation by Evgenia Kanishcheva. The title of the book was rendered in the well-established version “Where the monsters live”, although the monsters themselves are translated as Fear-images in the text.

Do you think the translator did the right thing? I liked the word "fear image", but it's kind of complicated. And the "monster" seems nicer and kinder. To whom the parents did not say: "You are my monster!"

Although children seem to like strange words with a catch. Perhaps the "fear image" is nothing like that!

ANNOTATION

“That evening Max dressed up as a wolf and arranged a shurum-burum. And then a burum-shurum. And my mother said:“ Oh, you monster! ”And Max said:“ I am a fear-like, and I will eat you! ”And my mother sent him to sleep. supper ".

It seems that this situation is familiar to millions of parents all over the world. A child who has been so naughty that he cannot stop. And a mother who does not want to endure disobedience and impoliteness. What will happen next? Therapy for adults, how to show endurance and patience in stressful situations? An instructive story for a child, how it is impossible to behave and what happens?

Maurice Sendak tells a very different story. In it, Max goes to a magical land inhabited by Fearsimages of all sizes and stripes. There, the most courageous and fearless fear image, of course, turns out to be a little boy. He has fun with all the heart and fears. Until he gets bored and returns to his cozy home, where it smells like mom's pie. After all, not a single mother in the world will leave her child, even if it is the King of Fear-images, without dinner.

When this book, invented and drawn by Maurice Sendak, first saw the light, many parents, librarians and teachers were outraged: "On the very first pages, the child quarrels with his mother, and the author does not blame him for bad behavior!" But the children fell in love with this book instantly. Probably for an honest conversation about the emotions that children experience. Yes, the children's world is sometimes populated with terrible fear images, and not always adults can and should control everything in it. Children need to learn to experience the strongest and most violent feelings themselves in order to cope with difficult life situations.

Not only children fell in love with the book "Where the monsters live". In 1964, a year after its publication, she received the prestigious Caldecott Medal as the best illustrated book for children.

Many times Sendak's story has made it onto the lists of the best children's books compiled by librarians, educators, school teachers and parents. For artists, "Where Monsters Live" has become the standard of book illustration. Since its publication, the book has sold 19 million copies, translated into 13 languages, opera has been staged and a feature film has been shot.

In Russia, Sendak's most famous book (as well as the rest of his books) has never been published. In 1988, a Russian translation of "Monsters" with one of the illustrations was published in the magazine "Funny Pictures", in 1989 it was published in Estonia in Estonian.

For The Pink Giraffe, the book Where the Monsters Live was brilliantly translated by Evgenia Kanishcheva, one of the best translators of children's literature.
For primary school age.

PLOT

The story is very short. The retelling fully covers all points in the book.

The main character of the book is a boy named Max, who plays at home, dressed as a wolf. After several hooligan antics, his mother calls him a "monster" ( Wild thing), and he tells her to this: "I'll eat you!" Then mom sends him to bed without supper. In his room, Max imagines that there is a dense forest around him. Then he sails across the sea on a ship and ends up in the Land of Monsters. The monsters inhabiting the country have a frightening appearance (huge in size, with fangs and horns), but Max conquers them, as he can "look into their yellow eyes without blinking." He becomes king over all monsters and orders them to arrange wild dances, in which he himself participates. However, he soon gets tired of it, and now he sends the monsters to sleep without dinner. Max becomes lonely and he returns to the ship back, although the monsters ask him to stay and shout: "We will eat you, we love you so much!" Once in his room, Max discovers a still hot dinner on the table.

DESCRIPTION

Pages: 40 (Offset)

There is really very little text! This was the artist's idea. He even adjusted the original version to make it smaller.

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Paper makes me feel incredible nostalgia! It is not glossy, not heavy, as is already accustomed to in modern publications. And I really like it! The feeling that the book was published several decades ago and miraculously transported to the future, i.e. our present, perfectly preserved!

Somewhat reminiscent of watercolor paper (but not grainy). And the drawings on it seem to have only been drawn by the artist.

I am glad that the publisher printed on this type of paper. I noticed that many modern reprints do not look at all due to the change of paper. An artist, drawing illustrations, takes into account how they will look on a particular type of paper.

The illustrations were done in line art and probably with a watercolor substrate. Somewhere like there is white.

I would like to draw your attention to the technique used by Maurice Sendak.

Look for the size of the illustration on the page.

The story begins. A small picture in reality.

Then one page is no longer enough for her, and she "grabs" the next one until it takes up the entire spread.

This is how the artist shows that Max, the protagonist of the book, was so carried away by fantasy that the existing reality ceased to exist for him.

And finally, Tsippi, Moishe, Aaron, Emil and Bernard! I wonder which of them is who? ..

It was the moment when Max was completely carried away, and the fantasy captured him completely!

And finally he is back!

And the mother, who could not leave her beloved child hungry, it turns out, brought dinner.

Last page ... No pictures. Dinner is supper. Reality - it is! For a very hungry and brave person - the King of Fear Images, just a minute! - there is no time left for fantasy. Enjoy your meal!

Those. viewing!

This book is valuable because it is a model of atypical thinking.

Starting with the history of creation and ending with a topic that was not welcomed in those years (a quarrel with my mother). She does not teach ideal behavior. It only shows that fantasy is normal, it's great! That the mother is always on the side of her child, that she loves him in spite of any petty mischief.

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I bought for 433 rubles. with promotions in the maze.

I hung in the postponed for a long time, until I received a notification that I was in stock. So I don’t know, even though the labyrinth is available at the moment, but it may be that these are remnants.

Or maybe a reissue!

An English version can be ordered for ozone. That's what I wanted. And, to be honest, I still doubt it. Still, English is the original.

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And the first time I saw a book in the Library of Foreign Literature (on Kitay-Gorod, a couple of stops on a trolleybus).

She is still there. I advise you to go! Sometimes various events are held there. I was on one of these when I saw this book.