Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the … - Anthony Browne

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that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

Anthony Browne

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

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Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

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I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

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Picture books are being marginalised. I get the feeling children are being pushed away from picture books earlier and earlier and being told to look at proper books, which means books without pictures.

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A lot of my characters are underdogs or sad or lonely, but I had a comfortable, golden sort of childhood.

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You can never have 'equality' between two things that are not equal by definition. And so, for example, you can have equality among 'people', but not between 'men' and 'women'.

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The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer the surface. The nearer home, the deeper.

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that strange conflict in the American character: we pride ourselves on being the melting pot of the world but we insist on regarding most immigrants with suspicion.

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Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money.

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