My brother's book

Summary: "Fifty years after Where the Wild Things Are was published comes the last book Maurice Sendak completed before his death in May 2012, My Brother's Book. With influences from Shakespeare and William Blake, Sendak pays homage to his late brother, Jack, whom he credited for his passion for writing and drawing. Pairing Sendak's poignant poetry with his exquisite and dramatic artwork, this book redefines what mature readers expect from Maurice Sendak while continuing the lasting legacy he created over his long, illustrious career. Sendak's tribute to his brother is an expression of both grief and love and will resonate with his lifelong fans who may have read his children's books and will be ecstatic to discover something for them now. Pulitzer Prize-winning literary critic and Shakespearean scholar Stephen Greenblatt contributes a moving foreword --

Record details

ISBN: 9780062234896
ISBN: 0062234897
ISBN: 0007509162
ISBN: 9780007509164
Physical Description: print
regular print
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Michael di Capua Books."
Target Audience Note:	AD840L lexile Sentence length: 4 (hard) Word frequency: 1 (very easy) Lexile.
Study Program Information Note:	Accelerated Reader AR MG+ 3.9 0.5 158592.